How Saturn got its tilt and its rings
@article{ElMoutamid2022HowSG,
title={How Saturn got its tilt and its rings},
author={Maryame El Moutamid},
journal={Science},
year={2022},
volume={377},
pages={1264 - 1265}
}Description The destruction of a hypothetical moon may help explain the origin of both The angle between a planet’s equator and its orbit plane is known as its axial tilt or obliquity. As gas giants form from the disk made of gas and dust that swirls around the host star, the gas accretion process is expected to conserve the angular momentum and force the planet to spin perpendicular to its orbital plane. However, within our own Solar System, all gas giants, except for Jupiter, have a…
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