Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters

Looks like a ruttin’ wasp nest to me.

Yes, or the skeleton of a goniopora. Couldn’t find a good image to match.

djm

Wow, third time’s the charm, eh?

https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/saturns-hyperion-a-moon-with-odd-craters/32012/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/saturns-hyperion-a-moon-with-odd-craters/44660/1

budget cuts/recycling

It wouldn’t be missed if you omitted posting the same article the third or fourth (or fifth, sixth, etc) time.

Hyperion is about 250 kilometers across, rotates chaotically, and has a density so low that it might house a vast system of caverns inside.

That’s what it looks like to me - this photo looks like a piece of pumice.

Oh, you are SOOO busted Denny!!! :laughing:

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It looks like the recyclist is NASA, not Denny.

APOD is fourteen years old. There’s bound to be a repeat or two.

Well, I knew that! I just like to blame Denny :wink:

Isn’t is obvious, folks? The astronomers have run out of things to photograph. After all these years, their work is finally done! Now they can turn to constructing horoscopes and examining entrails … which is what everyone thought they did in the first place.

Starting tomorrow: NASA APOD - Astrology Prophecy of the Day. “You will regret time wasted online. Make an effort to visit with friends …”

So the universe is finite afterall. Perhaps they could make a hologram of it and sell it as a souvenir for tourists. “You wuz herein.”

djm

[u]We already talked about that.[/u]

Good for you. I didn’t have to explain it. :thumbsup:

djm

well I think it’s tacky to hollow out yer grams…so there!

Izz, ya know how I am with being responsible :smiley:

being what?

I’m disappointed by the “professional astronomer’s” complete silence on what must be Hyperion’s aperiodic orbit - first 482 and then 722 days between successive returns. Does Coppernicus know about this?

Hyperion…has a density so low that it might house a vast system of caverns inside.

Wonder if they have any of these?