Comments for: Saturday science subject: Broken moon

#4. Posted at 09:06 PM on Aug 4th 2007

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SpotTheCat

haha G rings

haha, action out there.

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#2. Posted at 06:27 PM on Aug 4th 2007

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evermore

Does 100 meters even count as a moonlet? More of a boulder. "Moon" should mean more than just any satellite, so "moonlet" should mean more than just a small satellite.

How long would it take for the chunks to be worn down so much they stopped having this effect? It must have been relatively recent that the rock was broken.

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#8. Posted at 09:44 AM on Aug 5th 2007

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Mr Bill

So, in world war XX if we crack the moon, earth will have rings? Thats very cool.

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#7. Posted at 05:15 AM on Aug 5th 2007

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Rakhmaninov3

LOL it's reassuring to see that TR's readership is so serious about scientific minutia.

#1. Posted at 05:50 PM on Aug 4th 2007

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ssidbroadcast

He adds, "There's a lot of action going on out there."

Maybe more action than his mattress gets, but still not that much.

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#3. Posted at 07:24 PM on Aug 4th 2007

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ssidbroadcast

a lot of action going on out there."

Actually, I wouldn't mind watching a channel that had nothing but hi-res footage of asteroid/moonlet/satellites/misc space junk collisions. Maybe in 100 years we will see a channel like that. Pure rock-on-rock action.