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Origin of the Saturn System

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Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

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Cassini mission results are providing new insights into the origin of the Saturn system and giant planet satellite systems generally. The chapter discusses current models for the formation of giant planets and their satellites and reviews major Cassini findings which help advance our understanding of the system's formation and evolution to its current state.

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The authors wish to acknowledge Jack J. Lissauer (NASA Ames Research Center) for many useful discussions and comments on an earlier draft of this work.

A portion of this work (TVJ) has been conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Johnson, T.V., Estrada, P.R. (2009). Origin of the Saturn System. In: Dougherty, M.K., Esposito, L.W., Krimigis, S.M. (eds) Saturn from Cassini-Huygens. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9217-6_3

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