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  Herschel (Mimasian crater)
The crater is so large that it is surprising that Mimas was not shattered by the impact that caused it.
If there were a crater of an equivalent scale on Earth it would be over 4000 km in diameter, wider than Canada.
The similarity between Mimas's appearance and the Death Star in Star Wars has often been noted, although this is a coincidence, as the crater was not discovered until several years after the film was made.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/he/herschel__mimasian_crater_.html   (215 words)

  
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none } Mimas (mee'-məs or mye'-məs,, Greek Μίμᾱς, rarely Μίμανς) is a moon of Saturn that was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.
The names of all seven then-known satellites of Saturn, including Mimas, were suggested by William Herschel's son John in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope.
He named them after Titans specifically because Saturn (the Roman equivalent of Kronos in Greek mythology), was the leader of the Titans.
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 Mimas - Space Wiki
Mimas is a moon of Saturn that was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.
The name "Mimas", indeed the names of all seven then-known satellites of Saturn, were suggested by Herschel's son John Herschel in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope [1].
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