Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:01 pm

It looks like coral.

Why is it considered odd?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:26 pm

click da pic...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:30 pm

Denny wrote:click da pic...

I did, but I didn't understand.

It's late.

PJ · Post by PJ » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:05 am

I thought this was about a new car.

Cool photos. From the Hubble?

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:08 am

From Cassini. And no, its not coral. Its green cheese.

djm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:11 am

PJ wrote:I thought this was about a new car.

the new Saturn Hyperion (notice the odd crater...)

Here's the sport model...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:11 am

djm wrote:From Cassini. And no, its not coral. Its green cheese.

djm

No, that's Earth's moon. This looks like it could be old mozzarella.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:32 am

Cranberry wrote:Why is it considered odd?

You said it yourself:

Cranberry wrote:It looks like coral.

Moons don't normally look like coral. So, this one is unusual (or odd, as some might put it).
It's also not the almost spherical shape we're more used to, which adds to its strangeness.

Those craters are deep, and conical. It must have gotten bombarded at high velocity!
If you flew the Mellenium Falcon into one of those craters, it looks like you'd fly out of an eel's mouth...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:34 am

fearfaoin wrote:Moons don't normally look like coral. So, this one is unusual (or odd, as some might put it).
It's also not the almost spherical shape we're more used to, which adds to its strangeness.

Thank you!

I didn't know that, but apparently everybody else did.

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:59 am

Cran, the Millenium Falcon is a space ship flown by Han Solo in Star Wars.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:04 am

amar wrote:Cran, the Millenium Falcon is a space ship flown by Han Solo in Star Wars.

Oops, I see I may have cleared some confusion, and subsequently added more confusion... Sorry.

Yeah, you have to have seen Star Wars to understand my last sentence. It's not important.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:45 am

I've never seen Star Wars (or Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings or whatever), because I don't watch movies.

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:50 pm

I know. We know.
That's why i explained.
Get it?

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:07 pm

Amar, what is that in the lower left corner of your current avatar?

On second thought, never mind. I suspect I don't really want to know...