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Awesome Image of Saturn's Moon Iapetus and Its Incredible Back-bone Looking Mountain Range
Phys.org ^
| April 21, 2014
| NASA
Posted on 04/21/2014 9:57:50 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce
Mickey, is that you?
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posted on
04/21/2014 1:48:11 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(When progressives ignore moral parameters, they also lose the natural gift of common sense.)
To: Slyfox
Why,you sly fox; how’d you figure it out?
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posted on
04/21/2014 1:59:12 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Barack Hussein Obama:The Worst is Yet to Come)
To: lbryce; SunkenCiv
Looks like two moons did a High Five!
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posted on
04/21/2014 2:01:40 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Pleasing everyone is impossible but pi$$ing everyone off is a piece of cake.)
To: Monkey Face
Interaction with at least one other body would probably be the explanation, during capture by Saturn, for example. :’)
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posted on
04/21/2014 4:23:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/21/2014 4:40:50 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Pleasing everyone is impossible but pi$$ing everyone off is a piece of cake.)
To: SunkenCiv; lbryce
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posted on
04/21/2014 4:46:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: citizen
No Waffle Houses in NJ. I have to drive over 40 miles to Allentown, PA to get my fix.
If I had won the Powerball lottery, I would have invested in one. My dad and I would be very happy campers. We would have gone me every morning for coffee and awesome food.
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posted on
04/21/2014 8:17:56 PM PDT
by
Gefn
(All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
To: lbryce
I dream about such places almost nightly, ever since 4th grade when I found a book on astronomy, and fell in love withJupiter and Saturn
I have such incredible vivid dreams, but then, given the way the world is today, I like dreaming about these places, unspoiled by humans.
(Please forgive me. I had a miserable day today where I personally saw people not treating each other nice when I ran an errand for my mother, . )
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posted on
04/21/2014 8:28:18 PM PDT
by
Gefn
(All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
To: lbryce
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posted on
04/21/2014 8:32:04 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: lbryce
Why,you sly fox; howd you figure it out? Minnie spilled her guts over one Reese's Peanut Butter cup.
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posted on
04/21/2014 9:09:45 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(When progressives ignore moral parameters, they also lose the natural gift of common sense.)
To: lbryce
I’ve seen similar from spring plowing. Hint of a depression on each side, which is where the material forming the “ridge” came from. Implication would be that the moon was grazed by a fairly large, irregularly shaped asteroid.
To: Gefn
That sounds great! Good luck on that Powerball.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:21:49 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: trisham
It appears to have been hit millions of times by meteorites. Gee, it does, doesn't it?
I wonder how that could be?
Regards,
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:15:22 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: The KG9 Kid
Iapetus is tidally locked, which means that one side constantly faces the Sun Saturn. There, fixed it fer yuh!
Regards,
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:18:01 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:19:41 AM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:21:58 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: The Cajun
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)
Iapetus is mostly ice. It’s period of rotation is 79 days. When the dark side faces the sun, ice sublimates and some it is redeposited on the light side, which makes the dark side darker and the light side lighter. The craters are made of ice, on which more ice constantly precipitates.
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