Dec. 4th, 2004

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This picture of Prometheus pulling material off the F ring is pretty cool.

I wish that the authors of NASA press releases and educational materials would come up with some phrase other than "potato-shaped" (and occasionally "peanut-shaped") to describe irregular bodies. To me, Prometheus looks more like a bar of soap that has been eroded about halfway to extinction. Hyperion looks like a half-constructed prehistoric spear point. The asteroid Eros sometimes gets the "peanut-shaped" description but they might just be trying very hard to avoid the pornographic implications of its name.
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An amazing number of old Web pages have links apparently rotted not by file disappearance, but by file permission problems.

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