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PHOEBE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 449 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHOEBE  , in

astronomy, the ninth satellite of Saturn in order of
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discovery, or the tenth and outermost now known in XXI . 15 the order of distance . It was discovered by W . H . Pickering in 1899 by photographs of the stars surrounding Saturn . It is remarkable in that its motion around the planet is retrograde .

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