Starship Asterisk*

Chris Peterson wrote: This is a moon made of water ice...

mark swain wrote:Do you think the impact is consistent with an orbital body or an incoming commit? And does the crater give any sort of time period of when, how long ago it happened?

mark swain wrote:What did this impact do to the moons orbit? Or spin? To be left intact, did the energy go elsewhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28giant%29 wrote:
<<Mimas was one of the Gigantes of Greek mythology. Like the other giant sons of Gaia,
Mimas had serpents for legs and was born fully armoured.
Mimas was slain by Hephaestus during the war against the Olympian Gods.>>

1) Titan      1655    Huygens
2) Iapetus    1671    Cassini
3) Rhea       1672    Cassini
4) Dione      1684    Cassini
5) Tethys     1684    Cassini
6) Enceladus  1789    William Herschel
7) Mimas      1789    William Herschel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28moon%29 wrote:
<<Mimas was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on 17 September 1789. He recorded his discovery as follows: "The great light of my forty-foot telescope was so useful that on the 17th of September, 1789, I remarked the seventh satellite, then situated at its greatest western elongation." Mimas is named after one of the Titans in Greek mythology, Mimas. The names of all seven then-known satellites of Saturn, including Mimas, were suggested by William Herschel's son John in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope. He named them after Titans specifically because Saturn (the Roman equivalent of Kronos in Greek mythology), was the leader of the Titans.

According to Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, the adjectival form of Mimas would be Mimantean (the genitive case is Latin Mimantis, Greek Μῑμάντος). In practice, anglicisms such as Mimasian and Mimian are very occasionally seen, but more commonly writers simply use the phrase 'of Mimas'.

Mimas is responsible for clearing the material from the Cassini Division, the gap between Saturn's two widest rings, A ring and B ring. Particles at the inner edge of the Cassini division are in a 2:1 resonance with Mimas. They orbit twice for each orbit of Mimas. The repeated pulls by Mimas on the Cassini division particles, always in the same direction in space, force them into new orbits outside the gap. Other resonances with Mimas are also responsible for other features in Saturn's rings: the boundary between the C and B ring is at the 3:1 resonance and the outer F ring shepherd, Pandora, is at the 3:2 resonance. More recently, a 7:6 co-rotation eccentricity resonance has been discovered with the G ring, whose inner edge is about 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) inside the orbit of Mimas.>>

Sunit wrote:Paul

I hope this is not my post that you "loled". I'm really sorry if so.
I am far from any inclination within the science fiction or mysticism ... Yes, it is an impact crater, it is not necessary to argue about.

The photo caption asks why there is this particular color. So long as there is no objective answer but only speculation, I believe that imagination deserves his place.
Without imagination, no thesis. No thesis, no research.

Regards.


nb : Perhaps some terms I use could be confusing, I'm not an English native speaker.

We all know and believe that star wars was real. This is the death star in disguise, its not a crater. Its the eye of doom that can cause the destruction of any planet in the universe. Lets not disturb it from its icy sleep. lol.

(Its an impact crater, end of)

Paul.

...this giant crater on Mimas is oddly colored...

tesla wrote:If this is an impact crater it would of destroyed the moon or left it in a sorry state. It would of hit at a high velocity. Also you would find major destruction at the antipode site on the opposite side of the crater. Nothing there.