Helene a trojan moon.

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Helene a trojan moon.

Post by FieryIce » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:01 pm

An odd shaped moon.

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Cassini-Huygens mission, N00086688.jpg

"Helene (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across) orbits 60 degrees ahead of Dione in the larger moon's orbit, making it a "trojan" moon of Dione."
Planetary Photojournal, PIA08335: Helene
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Post by zeilouz » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:11 pm

It does look similar to phobos n deimos of mars
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Post by FieryIce » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:39 pm

Close in size to Phobos, Deimos is smaller.
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