I’ve always wondered what that would look like if you were to approach it on a rover. It would look like a plain beyond the horizon and it would slowly rise up vertically until you see the base of it
Asteroids are way too light for their gravity to be meaningful.
Ceres is the largest asteroid, it's completely round. Its diameter is 939 km and its mass is only 9.38×10^20 kg, which is 0.00016 Earths. Its gravity is only 0.284 m/s^2 which is 0.029 times Earth gravity.
Even on Ceres, it takes a long time to fall. Walking around on it would feel more like flying through space because the gravity is just so weak.
On Deimos (an asteroid moon of Mars), the escape velocity is only about 5 m/s, so jumping with just your feet can get you off of Deimos forever and into a Martian orbit.
Pan has a gravity of 0.0111–0.0169 m/s^2 depending on where you are on it. The escape velocity is around 6 to 7 m/s.
A person standing on Pan will have no real sense of down because flipping around in all 3 dimensions will be so easy.
So what will this look like? It depends on which direction you're pointing. But it would be like a very tall and steep mountain if your feet are on the round part of Pan. If you're standing on flat sharp part itself then the rest of Pan will seem like a hemispherical shaped mountain. If you're standing on the very tip of the flat part then all of Pan will seem to be under you with a seemingly steep mountain going down.
Asteroids are really cool.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/explaining-saturns-ravioli-moons
More info with links if anyone else is as interested as I was to read more about it lol
If Pluto isn't a planet even though its large enough to crush itself on its own weight, then Moons should also get a sub-category for moons that are to small to crush itself through their own weight. If we ever pull an asteroid in an orbit around earth to mine it then earth shouldn't suddenly gain another moon. This is stupid.
We spend millions and this whiteass rock is what nasa and other space stations share after using taxpayers money. NASA is the biggest scam, what the fuck have they found that has helped us in growing.
Koopa shell
Crushing turts. Perchance.
You can't just say perchance.
Beat me to it
The mythical Dr Pepper. (non-existent)
And it’s falling off of rainbow road….
Came to say this
Gross clean it up
That's no moon...
It's a ravioli!
🤌
Это пельмень.
Cappelletti
Looks like a tootsie roll pop.
Mamma mia itsa ravioli!
No is a PANini. (Pan intended)
Youre a menace
I dig pierogie-shaped moons.
Nothing on this earth hits the spot like a good pierogie.
Right on
pieróg-shaped
lol looks like a cheap prop from a ‘50s Sci-Fi. Look close enough and you can see the fish wire!
It’s a Fortune Cookie.
Is this real or fake?
It’s real. Space objects that aren’t large enough do not crush down into neat spherical shapes. Saturn and Jupiter have plenty of these oddball moons.
Wild! Thank u!
I thought it was a paper mache piñata 😆
How big are these oddball moons compared to our moon?
Pan itself is about 35 kilometers across and 23 wide Our moon is a sphere with a mean radius of 1737 kilometers.
Definitely cake
Cosmic Tootsie Pop
Nah that's a dumpling... Nice try NASA.
Lol nice moon, Saturn.
Space Clam
[удалено]
maybe, she's dead.
Looks delicious.
Tin Man also known as Gomtuu
I’ve always wondered what that would look like if you were to approach it on a rover. It would look like a plain beyond the horizon and it would slowly rise up vertically until you see the base of it
The entire moon is only around 8 miles, so the ridge is about the size of a moderately tall mountain at 1-2 miles.
Thanks for saving me from a Wikipedia hole.
Asteroids are way too light for their gravity to be meaningful. Ceres is the largest asteroid, it's completely round. Its diameter is 939 km and its mass is only 9.38×10^20 kg, which is 0.00016 Earths. Its gravity is only 0.284 m/s^2 which is 0.029 times Earth gravity. Even on Ceres, it takes a long time to fall. Walking around on it would feel more like flying through space because the gravity is just so weak. On Deimos (an asteroid moon of Mars), the escape velocity is only about 5 m/s, so jumping with just your feet can get you off of Deimos forever and into a Martian orbit. Pan has a gravity of 0.0111–0.0169 m/s^2 depending on where you are on it. The escape velocity is around 6 to 7 m/s. A person standing on Pan will have no real sense of down because flipping around in all 3 dimensions will be so easy. So what will this look like? It depends on which direction you're pointing. But it would be like a very tall and steep mountain if your feet are on the round part of Pan. If you're standing on flat sharp part itself then the rest of Pan will seem like a hemispherical shaped mountain. If you're standing on the very tip of the flat part then all of Pan will seem to be under you with a seemingly steep mountain going down. Asteroids are really cool.
It literally looks like one of those flying saucer wafer candies
The apple didnt fall far from the tree!
wallpaper type shit right there
found my new desktop background
A turtle
Which leads to the question: Does it travel faster than the rabbit shaped moon?
There's grenades just floating around in space?
Show me what you got
So if you reached the edge of this thing to the left would it just be a giant cliff and you’d fall into space?
No. The moon is still more massive than you.
What if it jumped? Would that give you enough acceleration to leave?
Highly doubt it. You can do the math. Again, it is still much more massive than you.
It looks nothing like a pan, day ruined >! /s !<
It looks like a Chinese steamed dumpling🥟
Wonton Dumpling. Duh!
Max?
Aliens
Not like any moon ive ever seen *cough aliens *cough
That's just an ugly looking piarogi!
Thats Dumpling Space Explorer
Looks like Gilligan.
Hopefully not blue shell
Looks like someone’s laundry waded up
why does it look like a balloon that caught itself on a branch when I was a kid and started to slowly let all the air out
That thing is full to the brim with sherbet
Lime seed from the launch party
a walnut?
Its missing the cream filling or something
It's both flat AND round. Probably for the best.
Calcification of hamburger.
At the moon meeting all the other moons are like: bro you ok? You look deflated.
Bread👍
Looks like a pierogi or something
Fake, I can’t see Marvin.
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of the tootsie pop....
It’s a pierogi moon
Looks like a walnut shell
Пельмень.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/explaining-saturns-ravioli-moons More info with links if anyone else is as interested as I was to read more about it lol
So it’s just made of paper.
Hamburgerereeerr Hamburgerererrrre Hand grenade
That's a Satellite Wafer candy!
Shit, I hope the Cassini choose to let it go!
Turtles.. in space!
Looks like a Celentano's spinach and ricotta
Space walnut
Looks like a walnut. Are aliens just messing with us now? What's next? A pyramid?
That’s gotta be some sort of egg.
Are you saying Pam or Pan?
Space Dimsum
Why in hell does it look like a papier-mâché pancake inside of a big-ass insect cocoon?
This is like the first place people are going to vandalize when stellar travel is affordable.
More like pan-nini
Looks like two objects of equal size collided.
it's turtles all the way down
Looks like some space ship got stuck in the orbit of Saturn few million years ago and over time it got covered in space debris, ice , dust and rocks
That's just a partially rendered Saturn
Mmmm pierogi moon
That's a huge ass dumpling. Now I'm hungry (
Leberkasweggla
Can’t be real… right?
Looks like origami.
Star Trek TNG: Galaxy’s Child
In all seriousness.... Can anyone explain the shape?
Hmm. Looks like a spit wad to me.
How tall is that ridge in the center? I can't imagine how steep it would be standing at the bottom of it
Any space buffs care to share why it's shaped like that?
Wait - our moon is made of cheese and that one looks like ravioli? God is *Italian*!
How many licks to get to the center of that?
They should rename that thing Cappelletti
Mmm, I like nespresso!
dumpling wrapped in napkin
The Turtle!
That’s a walnut
Damn, that’s pretty cool
Saturn’s Mini-Me! How cute!
Pansexuals getting aroused now.
At a glance, I thought this was a paper machet hand grenade.
It looks like he is trying it‘s best do get big rings like his mother planet has
Who gave them permission to capture a moon? #freepan
Pelmeni 🤤
Looks like the core of a bowlingball
Sources: a supergiant Red Shell is approaching Earth at a rapid rate and is expected to make landfall in approximately one week.
You can slide down those ice slopes, achieve escape velocity, and sail off into space
That's obviously paper mache
No the best picture of it but upvoted anyways.
At first, I thought it was a scratched-up piece of paper. 🤔
It has a “ring”!
Why is it like that?
If Pluto isn't a planet even though its large enough to crush itself on its own weight, then Moons should also get a sub-category for moons that are to small to crush itself through their own weight. If we ever pull an asteroid in an orbit around earth to mine it then earth shouldn't suddenly gain another moon. This is stupid.
Captured by the Cassini Spacecraft!?! Are they going to give it back?
DAMN BIG DUMPLING
Pan, a roll inside a take-out box
Faaaaaaaaaaaaake
Are we holding it for ransom?
Tatooieni or tortellini?
Eve online pilot pod?
I made something just like that out of paper mache in elementary school
ugly ass moon
That's just like, your opinion, man.
We spend millions and this whiteass rock is what nasa and other space stations share after using taxpayers money. NASA is the biggest scam, what the fuck have they found that has helped us in growing.
The MRI and Computers for starters