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Old 11-November-2007, 03:29 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Oh.
Probably worth pointing out how, in my quote above, the Cassini team are using several flybys for these measurements. If you catch Titan at different distances from Saturn, you get a measure of how it deforms under tidal strain: that not only gives you density-gradient information, but an idea of the viscoelastic properties, too.
That second modality is also helpful in differentiating liquid from solid.

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