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Michael Dracon
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Saturns moon Mimas:

Comments please...


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Elim Garak
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Weird. Very weird.

*shivers*

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Aethelwer
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How big is it?

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You guys didn't know about that?

I've known about Mimas for ages...

How wide is the moon itself? ~390km. The crater's name is Herschel, it's ~130km wide and 9km deep. It's amazing that the impact didn't shatter Mimas to bits.

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Michael Dracon
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Hmm... I hate when someone else posts when I post.

My source says:
"This image of Mimas was acquired by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on November 11, 1980. The large crater on the right limb is named Herschel.
It is 130 kilometers (80 miles) wide and one-third the diameter of Mimas. Herschel is 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, with a central mountain
almost as high as Mount Everest on Earth. This impact probably came close to disintegrating the moon."

[This message was edited by Altair on March 16, 1999.]


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Aethelwer
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Darn. It doesn't match the size of either Death Star.

Maybe someone should head up there and dig a huge trench...

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Elim Garak
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... And make a nice big target for some pretty proton torpedoes.

Is Mimas in between the two sizes, larger, smaller or something else? (No, I don't particularly want to go look it up at that Star Wars guide page. )

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Aethelwer
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It's in between the two sizes.

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Elim Garak
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Thanks, Frank.

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RW
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*isn't into moons*

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Sol System
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*LOL*

The Vorlons have always known.

Anyway, these sorts of craters are semi-jokingly refered to as death stars. Er...at least I knew some folks who did.

Mercury has a similar feature, the Caloris Crater. And, as The Vorlon mentioned, these impacts were of such force that had they only been slightly faster or larger they would have shattered their respective targets. As it is, if you look at the side of the object opposite the impact, the terrain is visibly jumbled, due to the shockwaves.

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Thats where Rimmer and Lister boarded Red Dwarf of course!

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