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To: VadeRetro
I'm not scoring very high on guessing what real astronomers think. For one thing, I didn't know all the elements of the problem, such as the symmetry the ridge exhibits with the light-dark pattern on Iapetus.

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/iapetus_consume_saturn_ring.html

Anyway, the "rindge" as the author calls it (evidently a combination of "rind" and "ridge") is 12 miles high.

1,501 posted on 09/30/2006 10:34:32 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: tomzz
Your dismissals invited on the article linked in 1501.
1,502 posted on 09/30/2006 11:18:01 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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1,506 posted on 09/30/2006 8:17:47 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: VadeRetro

Iapetus placemarker


1,516 posted on 09/30/2006 10:20:38 PM PDT by Jaguarbhzrd
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