Rev 61 Enceladus (March 12 2008) |
Rev 61 Enceladus (March 12 2008) |
Mar 8 2008, 10:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
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Mar 28 2008, 05:46 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Interesting thought, Stu. You know that over the past 4.5By more then a few comets had to hit Enceladus, regardless of how small a target it is and given its proximity to Saturn (thinking of gravitational focusing here).
"Small" in fact might actually be the key point for Enceladus: could a significant amount of its original mass have been displaced into the E-ring and beyond by comet impacts over time? Framed in this way, it might be surprising if its non-core composition wasn't approximately cometary by now, though given that thought that might set some pretty severe limiting constraints on the moon's intrinsic chemical processes... Damn. Now I gotta go drive 56,740 smoots in horrible traffic to perform Reserve duty instead of digging this thread. (I have taken an oath to express all personal terrestrial positional displacements from now on in smoots. Velocity will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight, which is not an unreasonable unit for LA traffic...) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 28 2008, 07:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Damn. Now I gotta go drive 56,740 smoots in horrible traffic to perform Reserve duty This time of day in Los Angeles you'll probably be driving no faster than 200 furlongs per hour, meaning it's going to take 0.0119047619 fortnights to get there. So you better get going. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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