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Re: The Strange Hyperion
« on: October 13, 2005, 05:05:19 PM »
Mmmmm,
Hyperion’s Saturnine year is just over 21 days…
(Saturn of course takes over 29 Earth Years to go round the Sun).

Incidentally the Cassini spacecraft captured one of the best images of its mission just a few days ago.
Dione eclipsing Saturn's moon Rhea.
IMAGE (88kb)

In the animation, the distance between Dione and Rhea was roughly 330,000 kilometres.