"Vaughn L.Porter" <vaughnp@pcez.com> wrote in message news:<v2p90gb2d0fhbf@corp.supernews.com>...
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> > > > Yes but Eva is a cartoon and the Death Star really exists.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hey! You're not supposed to know that! That's TOP SECRET!
> >
> > When the Voyager spacecraft reached Saturn, they returned these images:
> >
> > http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mimas.html
> >
> > And NASA claim it's a 'moon', eh?
> 
> No, that's TMA-2 from the 2001:ASO novel, it was in orbit around Saturn, not
> Jupiter.
> 
>                       Vaughn L.Porter
>                       ...oh my God! It's full of stars!


Different Saturnian anomaly. The Death Star is in orbit around Saturn,
that's clear enough from the Voyager photos; astronomers call it
'Mimas' and pretend it's just a moon to avoid causing panic. TMA-2 was
at the centre of the light side of Iapetus.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/iapetus.html

No good pictures of Iapetus, unfortunately; neither Voyager seems to
have made any very detailed examination. Hopefully Cassini will return
better shots when it gets there next year; if it picks out a little
black dot right at the leading point of Cassini, I'll start panicking.
Hopefully we can get Darth Vader to take the thing out before it
causes any trouble, he's only a few orbits away...