Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum

And they laughed at MR...

Here's Saturn's tiny little moon Pan, only 8 miles across, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft. It's one of the little shepherd moons that preserves one of the gaps in Saturn's rings.



http://www.space.com/36004-saturn-flying...hotos.html

Looks ripe for the The Phantom Planet scenario. (Actually a traveling asteroid rather than planet, but just part of a parade of "does not follow" events expected in antiquated flicks, anyway.)

(Mar 10, 2017 09:37 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]And they laughed at MR...

Here's Saturn's tiny little moon Pan, only 8 miles across, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft. It's one of the little shepherd moons that preserves one of the gaps in Saturn's rings.



http://www.space.com/36004-saturn-flying...hotos.html

looks like ice striations with an inner strong magnetic field on an eliptical plane.
i wonder if it might be the remnants of a comet(large water body)

There's that walnut I lost!

(Mar 13, 2017 07:15 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]There's that walnut I lost!

Scones gone wrong... in space
when nasa has a bake-off with their blast off

Looks like a ham sandwich/croissant or maybe it's the Baltic Sea Anomaly mother ship, dead in the water....er.....space.

(Mar 15, 2017 04:23 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like a ham sandwich/croissant or maybe it's the Baltic Sea Anomaly mother ship, dead in the water....er.....space.

Got me Boots ! where's me space suit ?