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- mogus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+82That's no moon...
- JackyAppleJones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+77Is it just me, or does Mimas (the far right side) look like the Death Star?
Coincidence? - neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+77There are 2 gas giant planets (Jupiter and Saturn), 2 ice giant planets (a sub-class of 'gas giants', Uranus and Neptune), 4 terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and 3 dwarf planets (Pluto, Eris being 'ice dwarfs' and Ceres a 'terrestrial dwarf'). That's 11 in all. If you don't include the dwarf planets then it's 8.
So now you know :) - wonderchemist, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6211 planets? Submitter must be a Pluto lover.
- macaddct1984, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31There is an awesome video comparing the massive bodies in the universe (I think it made it to digg a while back):
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3974466981713172831&hl=en - drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37Well then some of the moons are planets.
- surf314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26All of these belong to you except for Europa, attempt no landings there.
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Yeah, and it's a Gas Giant!
- saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Its a shame that Venus has all that greenhouse gas. Its distance from the Sun along with its size would make it a perfect planet to terraform if it weren't hundreds of degrees.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19Let me be the first to say:
Uranus is HUGE! - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@johnnynapalm (#5928874)
* Artist's impression or placeholder image - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@ LordOfTheTrons
Don't worry, it's not completely operational yet. - Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"the Death Star was designed and created long before the first photographs of Mimas were taken"
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Didn't know what a TNO was...google is my friend (in case anyone is curious)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Neptunian_object - ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Mimas looks way more like the deathstar.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah we've not been to Pluto yet but New Horizons probe will do in 2015: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There have been ideas on using rockets filled with a form of bacteria that could decompose the atmosphere into most suitable things...
- mtjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Ramen!
- look4alec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Mimas closely resembles the Death Star in the Star Wars films. This is purely coincidental; the Death Star was designed and created long before the first photographs of Mimas were taken. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28moon%29
I'd say... - MadMadCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I would love that as a Poster
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ah, totally missed that, thanks =)
- MArainman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Here's a less-pretty but equally mind boggling image which made the rounds on Digg a while back:
http://xs511.xs.to/xs511/07042/universe5py.gif - Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wheres Rosie O' Donnell?
- Drakkor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Look here: http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
- CanadianJason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I love how the moons of Mars are way too freakin tiny to even be on this 'chart'.
- ref-d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4/me whispers
"Miranda" - Kimera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4EL61 is very intresting, found this in google.
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/2003EL61/
===Quote===
We have constructed a hypothesis which attempts to explain everything going on on 2003 EL61. The hypothesis goes like this: 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was in the process of forming, the object that is now 2003 EL61 was a ball made half of ice and half of rock and about the size of Pluto (much like what we think Pluto is today). Sometime early in its history, another large Kuiper belt object collided with 2003 EL61 obliquely. This collision knocked away most of the ice (which would have been on the outside) of 2003 EL61, leaving just a rock covered in a thin film of ice. The oblique impact caused 2003 EL61 to spin rapidly. The rapid spin elongated 2003 EL61 into the football shape we see today. Some of the debris from the impact coalesced into the satellites, which would have been initially much closer but which have been evolving outward with time.
===/Quote=== - denkc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Earth still looks the coolest. Gotta love home.
- McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yeah, he's pretty cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sorry, "blades of glory" reference.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ack, couldn't they have used Km? Guess I'm just a picky bastard...
On a more related note, I'm surprised we have not sent a probe to Ceres yet. Ceres is right after Mars in distance from the earth, and is fairly large. It is believed to contain a lot of water ice. I believe there is a probe scheduled to visit sometime in the next 10 years though. - KataLieb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Meh. Humans as grains of sand, in their wisdom dispute the stature of congress of the skies!
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Info on how this was made from his blog: http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2007/03/all-known-bodies-in-solar-system.html
- SwornPacifist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Mimas closely resembles the Death Star in the Star Wars films. This is purely coincidental; the Death Star was designed and created long before the first photographs of Mimas were taken."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28moon%29#Mimas_in_fiction_and_film - bridow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4right-click and save
- ShaneMcDeath, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Uranus (Gas Giant)
- SilverBack101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with madmadcow this would be an awesome poster to put up on a wall.
- gheide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All these marbles, and nobody's playing with them... or are they?
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8What's more amazing is that all of them are only 6,000 years old.
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hit up a Kinkos.
- topicnation, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thanks! How the hell did this get such many diggs? http://cakeguru.blogspot.com
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whats funny is the level of my ignorance.
I realy realy didn't realize how damn small Mars is.
Calisto, Titan and Ganymede are damn big moons.
And why is it Luna to Mars, when Luna is nice place period? - Amnesia10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I now only need about 4 screens side by side and this would make a great wallpaper across them all!
- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Here's another that looks pretty sinister (Iapetus, a moon of Saturn):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060103.html
Kind of Death Starish. - m0nk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I think he's using the new specifications noting "Minor Planets".
Duh, I didn't refresh before adding a comment, neave beat me to it. - silversilver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Miles? If you really wanted to impress me you would have used kilometers.
- sharly2007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Ack, couldn't they have used Km? Guess I'm just a picky bastard... On a more related note, I'm surprised we have not sent a probe to Ceres yet. Ceres is right after Mars in distance from the earth, and is fairly large. It is believed to contain a lot of water ice. I believe there is a probe scheduled to visit sometime in the next 10 years though. http://www.gwafi.com/home.html http://www.gwafi.com/links.html
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@masterofNone
I detect a very blatant Freudian slip in that last statement....
...or it could just be a simple typing error. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Drakkor (#5929008)
You don't think so what? I've seen that bit in the link you posted, it's cool and always worth a relook, but what are you "don't think so"ing about? - curios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1clicked the wrong button, sorry @mArainman, thats an awsome link.
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