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DL MARTIN wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:39 am
Is that a Titleist or Callaway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_ball

Under the rules of golf, a golf ball has:

• a mass no more than 45.93 grams
  a diameter not less than 4.267 cm.

Mimas mean density = 1.1479 g/cm³ : Albedo = 0.962
Max. golfball density = 1.1291 g/cm³ : Albedo ~ 0.9

[Comparable Mimas Black Hole "Cup" Size: 170 solar mass.]

DL MARTIN wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:39 am Is that a Titleist or Callaway?

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:19 pm

DL MARTIN wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:39 am
Is that a Titleist or Callaway?

When we were kids; we waded the CC creeks for golf balls! Was a good way to earn spending money.

Once found a Tommy Armor 60 that netted 2 bits! Was big money back in the early '50s!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Armour wrote:

Tommy Armour

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<<Thomas Dickson Armour (24 September 1896 – 11 September 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships, the 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA Championship, and the 1931 Open Championship.

Armour was born on 24 September 1896 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Martha Dickson and her husband George Armour, a baker.

At the outbreak of World War I enlisted with the Black Watch and was a machine-gunner, he rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps. His conduct earned him an audience with George V. However, he lost his sight to a mustard gas explosion and surgeons had to add a metal plate to his head and left arm. During his convalescence, he regained the sight of his right eye, and began playing much more golf.

At the Shawnee Open in 1927, Armour scored the first ever "Archaeopteryx" (15 or more over par) when he made a 23 on a par 5, for 18-over par. This still stands as the highest score on one hole in PGA history. This historic performance happened just one week after winning the U.S. Open.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Panhandle wrote:

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

<<References to the Florida Panhandle always include the ten counties west of the Apalachicola River. These western counties also lie in the Central Time Zone (with the exception of Gulf County, which is divided between the Eastern and Central Time zones), while the rest of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone. Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle in Walton County. One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, Seaside rose to global fame as being the main filming location of the movie The Truman Show.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_County,_Oregon wrote:
<<Malheur County is a county in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Oregon. Its county seat is Vale, and its largest city is Ontario. Malheur County is one of the few counties in the United States with two time zones. Most of the county is in the Mountain Time Zone, but a small portion in the south is in the Pacific Time Zone. The county was named after the Malheur River, which runs through the county. The word "malheur" is French for misfortune or tragedy. The name was attached to the river by French Canadian voyageur trappers working for the North West Company on the Snake County Expeditions of Donald Mackenzie as early as 1818 for the unfortunate circumstance that some beaver furs they had cached there were snatched by Indians. The river lived up to its name a second time in 1845, when mountain man Stephen Meek, seeking a faster route along the Oregon Trail, led a migrant party up the river valley into the high desert along a route that has since become known as the Meek Cutoff. After leaving the river valley the party was unable to find a water supply and lost 23 people by the time they reached The Dalles on the Columbia River.>>

TheOtherBruce wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:42 pm
Interesting; I can see a good few craters with a deep bowl shape and a flat mass of fill at the bottom, unlike the sort of craters seen on the Moon or Mercury. Could there be any significance to this, like unusually low velocity impacts, or low surface gravity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon) wrote:
<<The Mimantean surface is saturated with smaller impact craters. Although Mimas is heavily cratered, the cratering is not uniform. Most of the surface is covered with craters larger than 40 km in diameter, but in the south polar region, there are generally no craters larger than 20 km in diameter.>>

starsurfer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:01 pm This picture makes me think of the WR 16 nebula for some reason?