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AVI Audio  |  1998-10-23  |  701.3 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  1 minute, 3 seconds
Transcription: Every theory has its weak points. For instance, it is not clear why heavier rocks should settle at the centre of the satellite. Miranda is a tiny body with very weak gravitational pull. Moreover, we cannot be sure that the original satellite was in fact broken up. Some geologists claim that if Miranda had been disrupted and then re-formed, some of the fragments would have crashed into the surface and produced large craters but nothing of this kind can be seen on the images of Miranda. Are such craters restricted to the far side, which has not been imaged by Voyager? This is a possibility. We k ...

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