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  1. 07-27-2004, 06:34 PM #1
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    Talking Cassini probe found WHAT?!?

    I've got a bad feeling about this...
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  2. 07-27-2004, 08:53 PM #2
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    That's no moon, that's a... oh, wait, it is a moon. Never mind.

    (grin)
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    Boy, they're really digging out the o-o-o-o-old jokes, aren't they.?

    The images are no surprise - the appearance of Mimas has been known since 1980, when Voyager 1 did a photo survey. Back then, it was a shock, now it's "Where have you been for the last two decades?" Hell, this image isn't even as good as the old Voyager 1 images - must've been a slow news day.

    Here's a link with some of the old Voyager 1 pix:
    http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mimas.htm
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  4. 07-28-2004, 06:26 AM #4
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    Bah! You're no fun!
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    Regardless of which pictures you look at, that is one hell of a crater! Must have been one hell of an impact. Considering the size of the planetary body, I am surprised that thing is still there.

    Anybody know of the top of their head, is Mimas the record holder for smallest body with the largest crater? Or does that title belong to some other body?
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  6. 07-28-2004, 02:00 PM #6
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    Hmmmm.....my ex gf's brother had a huge acne scar....oh, hang on, wrong body and wrong kinda crater!



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  7. 07-29-2004, 12:35 AM #7
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    Bad Tas II, no cookie for you...go stand in the corner...
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    Visibly it probably is the biggest crater for the smallest body, but then the whole history of the solar system is about such collisions. One of the moons of Saturn (I think) has a surfaced which is all cracked. One fo the postulations was it was hit by a collision so terrible the moon broke up, but over the course of millions of years it managed to come back together again Unfortunatelly while I can remember the story i can't remember the moon
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  9. 07-30-2004, 09:12 AM #9
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    You may be thinking of Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus.

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  10. 07-30-2004, 09:32 AM #10
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    Yes, thanks, that sounds like the one I was thinking of.

    I go to APOD -> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ every day as I have a keen interest in Astronomy.. I just don't have an idetic memory
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