Take a look at this image of one of the moons of Saturn (named Iapetus) taken by Cassini back in Dec 2004.
The original hypotheses for the shape are discussed above, but scientists now think the odd shape persists because the moon was spinning extremely rapidly when it formed and "froze" into place and held ever since.
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