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Death Star spotted by Cassini probe !!!

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I'm actually interested in what that is, but they have to sex up the science so much as to make it incomprehensible.
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It is Saturn's fourth moon, Mimas. I've known about this moon since 1994, and the scientific community since at least 1990's (through the Hubble Space Telecope.) It has a huge impact crator on it's surface that makes it look like the laser pit from the death star.
Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
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http://www.starkiller-online.net/images/bt28no1.jpg

I scanned this image from my Banthatracks number 28, 1985. The blurb reads:
On November 12, 1980, scientists at Jet Propulsion Labratory were amazed as the image scanned across their monitor screens. As the picture of Saturn's moon 'Mimas' took shape, they realized it looked like another familiar celestial object--The Death Star.
Then, the caption for the image of Mimas says Office of Public Information, Jet Propulsion Labratory, California Institute of Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pasadena, California 91109
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Okay. I thought they discovered another DS-like object. I guess it would've been too hard to say, "We took another image of Mimas."

Personally, I think Iapetus is a better match, from the right angle. Even if Mimas is closer in size. And, of course, theories abound that Iapetus is artificial, like the Death Star. But that's getting into sci-fi territory....
"It's the stoned movie you don't have to be stoned for." -- Tom Shales on Star Wars
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.