Go to brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. Saturn's moon Hyperion is the poster child for the potato-shaped moons in the solar system. But unlike other potato-shaped moons, it's not thought to be a captured asteroid. So, does it's weird spongey looking surface give away how it might have formed? #spaceisweird #weirdisgood

Thomas et al. (2007) - www.nature.com/articles/nature05779
Matthews (1992) - articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1992QJRAS..33..253…
Cruikshank et al. (2007) - www.nature.com/articles/nature05948

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👩🏽‍💻 Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
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