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Helene a trojan moon.

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:01 pm
by FieryIce
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

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:11 pm
by zeilouz
It does look similar to phobos n deimos of mars

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:39 pm
by FieryIce
Close in size to Phobos, Deimos is smaller.