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	Mimas (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mimas (mye'-məs, IPA /ˈmaɪməs/, Greek Μίμᾱς, rarely Μίμανς) is a moon of Saturn that was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.
		Mimas' most distinctive feature is a colossal impact crater 130 km across, named Herschel after the moon's discoverer.
		Mimas is responsible for clearing the material from the Cassini Division, the gap between Saturn's two widest rings, A Ring and B Ring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mimas_(moon) (599 words)

	Mimas, A Moon of Saturn
		During its approach to Mimas on Aug. 2, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera obtained multi-spectral views of the moon from a range of 228,000 kilometers (142,500 miles).
		This image of Mimas was acquired by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on November 11, 1980 from a range of 425,000 kilometers (264,000 miles).
		The diameter of Mimas is 397 kilometers (247 miles), Dione is 1,118 kilometers (695 miles) and Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles).
	www.solarviews.com /eng/mimas.htm (1673 words)

	Herschel (crater on Mimas) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The crater is so large that it is surprising that Mimas was not shattered by the impact that caused it.
		It measures 130 km across, covering almost 1/3 of the diameter of the entire moon; its walls are approximately 5 km high, parts of its floor are 10 km deep, and its central peak rises 6 km above the crater floor.
		The impact that formed Herschel must have nearly disrupted Mimas entirely; fractures can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas that may be due to the shock waves from the impact travelling through the moon's body.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herschel_(crater_on_Mimas) (247 words)

	TPS: Saturn's moon Mimas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas is the first of Saturn's medium-sized moons, lying outside the main ring system but within the tenuous E ring.
		The face of Mimas is dominated by the giant crater Herschel in this image captured on January 16, 2005 from a distance of 213,000 km.
		Mimas' heavily cratered trailing hemisphere is visible in this high-resolution mosaic captured during Cassini's closest ever encounter with the moon on August 2 2005.
	www.planetary.org /saturn/mimas.html (831 words)

	The Moons of the Solar System — Mimas ••• THE ROTATING MAP ••• (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The moon of Saturn –; Mimas (I) – was discovered was discovered along with Enceladus in 1789, by the same man who only a few years earlier became the famous discoverer of Uranus – W. Herschel.
		Mimas was defeated and slain by Hephaestus (and in other traditions Ares) in the famous Titanomachy — a war between the Titans and the Olympians...
		The moon by this name is an similar to the circular prograde orbit (→eccentricity e = 0.021) with a →semimajor axis a = 185,600 km.
	republika.pl /ksiezyce/saturn/mimas_en.html (391 words)

	The Moons of Saturn
		Saturn's other moons have icy surfaces that are very cold so that ice is as rigid as rock and craters form from meteor impacts.
		The mean densities of these moons are 1.0 to 1.5 g/cc, implying that they are probably mostly ice, though they may have some rocky consituents.
		In various instances now we know that ring structures in the Jovian planets are stabilized by small "shepherd moons" that orbit in or near the rings and stabilize them by their gravitational influences.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/saturn/moons.html (832 words)

	Mimas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas was one of the Titans slain by Hercules.
		The surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 km across, known as Herschel; it's almost 1/3 of the diameter of the entire moon.
		This suggests that early in its history, Mimas was probably impacted by even larger bodies than the one that created Herschel which completely disrupted the new moon (wiping out the evidence of earlier large impacts) but that the impact debris then coalesced again to form present-day Mimas.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/mimas.html (210 words)

	Mimas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MIMAS [Mimas], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn.
		Mimas was discovered by the English astronomer Sir William Herschel in 1789.
		Mimas forms a satellite pair with Tethys ; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/mimas.asp (738 words)

	Mimas
		Mimas is the 6th closest moon to Saturn, with a standoff distance of 185,520 km.
		It is one of the icy moons, similar to the Galilean satellites.
		The main characteristic of Mimas is its resemblance to the "Death Star" from the "Star Wars" trilogy.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/saturn/moons/mimas.html (118 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Science \| Saturn's moon is the double of Star Wars space station
		The moon's surface is icy and heavily cratered.
		Most of the craters on Mimas are named after characters in Camelot, but the biggest was christened Herschel after Sir William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Mimas in 1789, Uranus in 1781 and invented the word asteroid.
		Mimas was a Titan slain by Hercules in Greek mythology.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/news/story/0,12976,1414924,00.html (311 words)

	Wikijunior Solar System/Saturn/Mimas - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Mimas is one of the moons of Saturn.
		Mimas is made mostly of ice, with some rock.
		Mimas is named after Mimas, the son of the Greek goddess Gaia.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikijunior_Solar_System/Saturn/Mimas (256 words)

	Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
		The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
		The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
		The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html (1335 words)

	Mimas
		Mimas as seen by the Cassini Orbiter on Jan. 16, 2005 from a range of 213,000 km (132,000 miles).
		The seventh moon of Saturn; in Greek mythology, Mimas was a Titan who was slain by the god Hercules.
		While most of the surface is covered with craters up to and exceeding 40 km (25 miles) in diameter, in the southern polar region craters larger than 20 km (12 miles) are generally absent.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mimas.html (311 words)

	Mimas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas is one of the innermost moons of Saturn.
		Because Mimas has such a low temperature of about -200C (-328F), the impact features may date back to the time of the moon's creation.
		The crater is 130 kilometers wide, one-third the diameter of Mimas.
	zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/ast121/lectures/mimas.html (189 words)

	APOD: April 25, 1999 - Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas is one of the smaller moons of Saturn but shows one of the largest impact craters.
		Mimas' low mass produces a surface gravity just strong enough to create a spherical body but weak enough to allow such relatively large surface features.
		Mimas is made of mostly water ice with a smattering of rock - so it is accurately described as a big dirty snowball.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap990425.html (140 words)

	Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Mimas
		Mimas was discovered by the British astronomer, Sir William Herschel in 1789.
		Although the surface of Mimas is heavily cratered, the most striking feature of this small moon is a gigantic crater known as Herschel.
		Mimas is also covered with small impact craters, but the cratering is not even.
	www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3g2.html (358 words)

	The Moons of Saturn - Astronomy for Kids
		The large crater on one end of the moon is almost one-third the size of the entire moon.
		There are cracks in the surface of Mimas on the side opposite from the crater that are probably the result of the same impact that caused the large crater.
		One side of this moon, which is a little over nine hundred miles in diamater, is very bright while the other side looks as if it has been left outside in an industrial area for a very long time.
	www.dustbunny.com /afk/planets/saturn/saturnmoons.html (779 words)

	Mimas compared to the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas is 1.31 times the diameter of Nereid (a satellite of Neptune).
		Mimas is 2.09 times the diameter of Janus (a satellite of Saturn).
		Mimas is 12.1 times the diameter of Helene (a satellite of Saturn).
	ic-www.arc.nasa.gov /projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Mimas/Moon.html (133 words)

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		Once a moon crosses this point of no return, the tidal gravitational forces on the moon (due to the planet) are greater than the gravitational forces holding the moon together.
		Consistent with the gravitational destruction of a moon, the rings are made of moonlike material (like the moons of Saturn) which are primarily ices and bits of ice covered rock, ranging in size from a dust grain to a minivan.
		Mimas is just shy of 400 km in diameter, and has well less than one percent of the mass of the Earth's moon.
	lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us /lpc/harpell/astro10_webct/class_notes/satguide.htm (1701 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Mimas
		Mimas is a tiny moon orbiting the planet Saturn.
		Mimas is composed mostly of water ice, interspersed with only small quantities of rock.
		Mimas is not visible from the Earth with the naked eye, but can be seen with a telescope.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/space/solarsystem/saturn/mimas.shtml (299 words)

	ScienceDaily: Cassini Flies By Saturn's Tortured Moon Mimas
		On its recent close flyby of Mimas (MY-muss), the Cassini spacecraft found the Saturnian moon looking battered and bruised, with a surface that may be the most heavily cratered in the Saturn system.
		Titan (moon) -- Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar...
		Phobos (moon) -- Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and is named after Phobos, son of Ares (Mars) from Greek...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/08/050805175948.htm (1298 words)

	DiscoverThePlanets.Com - Saturn, The 6th Planet from the Sun! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas was discovered by William Herschel in 1789 and is one of the innermost moons of Saturn.
		Mimas has enormous impact craters with one measuring the size of 130 kilometers wide.
		This Voyager l picture of Mimas shows a large impact structure at ll0 W Long., located on that face of the moon which leads Mimas in its orbit.
	www.discovertheplanets.com /saturn/smoons/Mimas.html (356 words)

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		It is one of the very smallest moons than any of the other moons in comparison to their other planets.
		Mimas is the seventh of Saturn's known moons.
		When the moon goes between us, and the sun the first bite is taken out of the sun's disk.
	www.uen.org /utahlink/tours/tourViewSite.cgi?tour_id=14274 (4830 words)

	Satellites (from Saturn) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mimas, moon of Saturn, photographed by NASA's Voyager 1.
		Dione, a moon of Saturn, is composed mainly of water ice.
		The largest of Saturn's moons is Titan, intermediate in size between the planets Mercury and Mars.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-215759 (945 words)

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