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[dilo]

This clean-filter narrow-field images ofDione was taken on Sep,16.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00039619.jpg
There is a strange feature on the left of the moon..
This meteor-like shape is not visible in other images of the same sequence, so it is almost surely a cosmic ray signature, but a very strange one (never seen something like this, before!). Any alternate explanation?
PS: It remind me an image from 2001: a Space Odissey (from the final, unforgottable Bowman's trip through the universe)... do someone else had the same flashback?

[RedSky]

Regarding the killer cloud article... I actually had to try and convince an alarmed friend why it couldn't be real. Besides the incredulous concept of a mangled informational chaos cloud, the astromonical facts were also just as ludicrous.

Since it was traveling "near the speed of light" heading directly toward earth, and is to arrive in 2014 (June 1 at 9:15 am EDT), that means it must be around 8 or 9 light years away! That's twice as far as the nearest star(s). ... and they say they "saw it" obliterate a large asteroid". At that distance... really. And getting an exact trajectory to earth over an 8 ly path... bah.

A 10 million mile wide cloud is a very tiny cloud, indeed. How electrons, or whatever, could hold themselves together in such a "cloud" is totally unknown. The story might have been actually more scary if it said it was a cloud of positrons that would annililate any matter it came in contact with instead of the mangled information chaos bit.

Also, as huge as a 10 million mile cloud might seem to the public, its only about 1/10th the earth-sun distance. It could easily slip through the solar system and never touch a thing.

Anyway, these alarmist jokesters should have a science advisor if they want their "stories" to have legs. That could really be dangerous.