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A remarkable Cassini picture: Hyperion (moon of Saturn)
Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan ^
| 09/30/2005
| Cassini
Posted on 09/30/2005 11:29:53 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: js1138
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:49:30 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
To: dbwz
It also looks like a kidney stone I strained out of a patient's urine some years ago... That one HURT!
42
posted on
09/30/2005 11:50:06 AM PDT
by
43north
(If you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart. If you're still liberal at 40 you have no brain.)
To: cogitator
Wow,
I love this stuff!
Thanks.
43
posted on
09/30/2005 11:52:00 AM PDT
by
najida
(Once upon a a very long time ago, in a land far, far away.....It was still all Bush's fault.)
To: Arthalion
It looks like a huge sink hole, not a crater. Notice some of the smaller craters are stretched into ellipses along the edge of the big "crater". These must have been existing and elongated as the ground sank. There are no new craters along this edge.
44
posted on
09/30/2005 11:55:15 AM PDT
by
idkfa
To: TravisBickle
Hey, where's the butter?
45
posted on
09/30/2005 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
To: idkfa
46
posted on
09/30/2005 11:56:09 AM PDT
by
43north
(If you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart. If you're still liberal at 40 you have no brain.)
To: farlander
Not massive enough to be round. Reminds me of a wasps' nest. Outstanding photo.
47
posted on
09/30/2005 11:57:00 AM PDT
by
kenth
(Only twenty thousand marched against the U.S. in D.C. today, but it smelled like half a million.)
To: cogitator
Looks like a giant sea sponge.
48
posted on
09/30/2005 12:00:20 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: 43north
It also looks like a kidney stone I strained out of a patient's urine some years ago... That one HURT!Yeee-ouch! How big was the stone?
49
posted on
09/30/2005 12:05:06 PM PDT
by
dbwz
To: jennyp
"Electrons whizz around the nucleus in clouds of probability distributions, which can get quite complex as the number of electrons increases."
"God does not play at dice"-Einstein
"Not only does God play at dice, he throws them under the sofa"--Some wag physicist
To: aspiring.hillbilly
"...Flying objects out in space have no weight only the gravity of the body ..."
you're close. they have mass, not gravity. but the mass and velocity would still cause quite collision.
51
posted on
09/30/2005 12:07:32 PM PDT
by
frankenMonkey
(Name one civil liberty that was not paid for in blood)
To: cogitator
Somebody "enhanced" that image.
52
posted on
09/30/2005 12:07:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: cogitator
Incredible. Cassini has been an amazingly successful mission.
To: cogitator
54
posted on
09/30/2005 12:13:46 PM PDT
by
GVnana
To: dbwz
I live in Florida and that is exactly what it looks like. A piece of coral.
55
posted on
09/30/2005 12:14:03 PM PDT
by
pblax8
To: ChadGore
The stretched walls of the smaller crater transitioning into the edge of the larger one must actually exist.I keep looking at that edge and it keeps looking like a fracture surface. They've found "dumbbell" asteroids (Toutatis) -- could Hyperion be a dumbbell asteroid that got hit hard enough to break it into two pieces? Maybe one of the other pieces is one of the smaller moons, or maybe the impact knocked the smaller piece out of Saturn's orbit?
There are going to be some seriously weird theories for this moon, I'm sure.
Images of Toutatis:
To: don'tbedenied
"God does not play at dice [with the universe]..."
He does play the occasional game of billards, though.
57
posted on
09/30/2005 12:17:57 PM PDT
by
mwyounce
To: frankenMonkey
...and if the moon is impacted by something near its mass/size , it would paradoxically cause less damage by bouncing away (like billiard balls,) than if a small object collided that was not big enough to perturb the orbit of the moon, and the collision would be absorbed by forming a crater.
58
posted on
09/30/2005 12:19:37 PM PDT
by
aspiring.hillbilly
(!...The Confederate States of America rises again...!)
To: mwyounce
Hyperion be a dumbbell asteroid that got hit hard enough to break it into two pieces? Possibly, but my guess is that Hyperion is small and is an ice comet (probably a captured Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt object) with a huge impact crater and loads of smaller secondary craters. The Saturnian environment loaded with debris to produce this kind of massive impact structure.
To: aspiring.hillbilly
>> Looks more like howard deans brain ....! Except smaller.
60
posted on
09/30/2005 12:30:06 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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