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The Strangest Moon In the Solar System

Posted by samzenpus on from the standing-out dept.

StartsWithABang writes Moons in our Solar System — at least the ones that formed along with the planets — all revolve counterclockwise around their planetary parents, with roughly uniform surfaces orbiting in the same plane as their other moons and rings. Yet one of Saturn's moon's, Iapetus, is unique, with a giant equatorial ridge, an orbital plane that doesn't line up, and one half that's five times brighter than the other. While the first two are still mysteries, the last one has finally been solved.

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  1. Unique? by stjobe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yet one of Saturn's moon's, Iapetus, is unique

    Aren't they all unique?

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  2. What a hideous annoying website medium.com is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We aren't all using tablets or phones. Looks like crap on my laptop.

    As for the article, if you are going to casually use words like "sublimate" without definition, it means your target audience is sophisticated enough that you don't need to write using a breathless, made for reality TV, annoyingly *excited* tone.

  3. Re:Medium. by TWX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess the people that used to read Time Magazine and Readers' Digest are the new target audience of Slashdot.

    After all, we could have links to scientific papers or at least their abstracts written by actual scientists who studied the phenomena.

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  4. Re: To summarize. by Yakasha · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Here is a summary you can copy/paste for all hazelton articles:

    Derp!