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Hyperion's resemblence to a wasp nest



 
 
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Old October 1st 05, 03:07 AM
Bob
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Default Hyperion's resemblence to a wasp nest

Well vaguely it resembles a wasp next. The paper nests you sometimes
find under the eaves of the roof on your house. As if the craters were
places where a lot of volatiles outgassed, blasting deeper than normal
holes for craters. And if Hyperion does have empty voids inside, that
might mean that Hyperion took a large hit blasting off its outer layers
and heating up the insides to boil off some of the lower temperature
volitale materials. Must have been many gas jets and guysers squirting
gas into space at the same time just after that big collision that
Hyperion took to blast its outer layers off. Hot enough to release say
methane and ammonia but not water ice? These jets and guysers would
carve deep holes in Hyperion's surface, and loose solid material around
the craters would start to slump back into the holes once all the gas
is vented, maybe like sand in an hourglass (we see the top surface of
the "sand" in the upper chamber as it makes an inverted cone, as
craters)?. Some "sand" filling the inner voids below the surface
craters? And make it look a little like a wasp nest, with all the paper
chambers as the deep inverted cone shaped craters. Hyperion must have
looked like a big comet for a while....

 




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