That’s no moon…!
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I sense a disturbance in the Force.
I thought that was an asteroid.
@thelotuseater725: No, it’s one of Saturn’s moons.
Mimas…link sez the crater’s 130km across. Since it looks about 1/4 the diameter, that’d make the moon 520km, or around 300 miles in diameter. What was the Death Star, 100 miles across? 120?
Math is fun.
On top of that, I think they call the crater Darth Crater.
Even better a Death Star lookalike is Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Iapetus_mosaic_color.jpg
@BioTronic:
i love Iapetus! it’s so fucking mysterious! the dark and the white side, the weird form (because it isn’t spheric) and that mountain on the Ecuador…