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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
NASA ^
| June 30, 2013
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 06/30/2013 9:00:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:00:49 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:01:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like a giant cinder
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:03:18 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
Alcindor?
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar_Lipofsky.jpg)
I see no resemblance...
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:12:13 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like my bath sponge.
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:14:44 PM PDT
by
bimboeruption
(Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
To: Roccus
If one were inclined to Science Fiction writing you could hide a nice big base and invasion fleet in that thing. Our solar system, a speck smaller than an atom in comparison with the observable universe, is an endlessly fascinating place. Of course, in the opposite direction so is the bottom of your average garden pond.
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:15:42 PM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:24:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: SunkenCiv
These craters look like they were formed by out-gassing, and if so, what remains is the core of a captured comet.
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:29:15 PM PDT
by
zot
To: null and void
Of course you don’t. Lew never wore a Lakers’ uniform.
};^)
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:36:32 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like barnacles have been growing on it. Could there be such a thing as space barnacles?
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:37:13 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Roccus
Yeah, and Barry Soetoro isn’t president either.
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:43:00 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I was thinking that it looks like coral.
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posted on
06/30/2013 9:43:25 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: null and void
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:04:25 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like a barnacle or coral of some sort. Almost organic cellular structure.......
To: Roccus
I thought it was a clumsy attempt to cover my near total lack of any sports acumen.
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:14:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like something that was molten at one time, out gassed furiously in the vacuum of space while cooling down and eventually solidifying.
Wonder what molten lava would look like in a large vacuum chamber while it cooled, seems like a simple experiment.
Probably could get a close approximation with mixed 5 minute epoxy hardener and resin, pulling a vacuum while it hardened..........Just thinking.
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:36:15 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:40:27 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Latin presbuteros>Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
To: BenLurkin
Those are impact craters. The question is what is the composition of Hyperion. What it is composed of will define what the impact craters look like.
Solid rock would not give that type of impact picture. Perhaps a rock and ice mixture could give this picture. If Hyperion were solid rock, we would see rays from the impact craters, as on the moon, that are caused by ejecta from the impact. It would appear that Hyperion is a semisolid.
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:42:29 PM PDT
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cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
To: BenLurkin
Those are impact craters. The question is what is the composition of Hyperion. What it is composed of will define what the impact craters look like.
Solid rock would not give that type of impact picture. Perhaps a rock and ice mixture could give this picture. If Hyperion were solid rock, we would see rays from the impact craters, as on the moon, that are caused by ejecta from the impact. It would appear that Hyperion is a semisolid.
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:43:26 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
To: Roccus
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posted on
06/30/2013 10:45:03 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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