http://wanderingspace.net/2006/12/wallpaper-hyperion-encounter/ Imaging the bodies of our Solar Sysytem Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:45:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://wanderingspace.net/2006/12/wallpaper-hyperion-encounter/#comment-1359 thomas Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:10:08 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=172#comment-1359 I think the going theory right now is that it is a very porous body that when struck by an object, almost absorbs the object rather than clashes. If you imagine how an object hitting sand reacts, it is similar. They think the darker material was already underneath the lighter material at the top which only exposes it in loosely packed materials upon impact. But who knows, if that is all the case then why is it so porous and why the lighter material at the top and darker just beneath? Some wonder if this darker material has anything to do with the dark material found at Iapetus. I think the going theory right now is that it is a very porous body that when struck by an object, almost absorbs the object rather than clashes. If you imagine how an object hitting sand reacts, it is similar. They think the darker material was already underneath the lighter material at the top which only exposes it in loosely packed materials upon impact. But who knows, if that is all the case then why is it so porous and why the lighter material at the top and darker just beneath? Some wonder if this darker material has anything to do with the dark material found at Iapetus.

]]> http://wanderingspace.net/2006/12/wallpaper-hyperion-encounter/#comment-1358 Gary Nicholls Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:01:41 +0000 http://wanderingspace.net/?p=172#comment-1358 My first thought when I first (recently) saw Hyperion was 'How come it always got hit with stuff that seemed to be heading directly to the centre ? Where are chunks taken out by objects hitting at odd angles or off-centre?' Somethings not right. My immediate reaction was that this was an object that gassed stuff OUT, that the odd 'craters' are the result of popped bubbles at the surface. Maybe an icy body that somehow got boiled by radiation? A strange skeleton left by the final efforts of a dying star ? My first thought when I first (recently) saw Hyperion was ‘How come it always got hit with stuff that seemed to be heading directly to the centre ? Where are chunks taken out by objects hitting at odd angles or off-centre?’ Somethings not right. My immediate reaction was that this was an object that gassed stuff OUT, that the odd ‘craters’ are the result of popped bubbles at the surface. Maybe an icy body that somehow got boiled by radiation? A strange skeleton left by the final efforts of a dying star ?

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