Mar 5 2009Little Moon Spotted Hiding In Saturn's Rings
Saturn, the second largest moon-whore in the solar system (behind Jupiter), has been caught hiding another trick in one of it's outer rings. What a slut!
The discovery of what appeared to astronomers as a faint, moving pinprick of light, was announced by the International Astronomical Union.
The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the small moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide.
Pfft -- 1/3 mile wide? That ain't no moon. That ain't even a moonlet. That, my friends, is a moonatoid. Come get some, Pluto!
'Moonlet' Found in Outer Saturn Ring [discovery]
Thanks to tarastars, who once stole a moon from Neptune and sold it at a yard sale to buy a video game.
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Reader Comments
1. tangelax - March 5, 2009 1:00 PM
I feel sorry for pluto.
2. gizmoduck - March 5, 2009 1:01 PM
that is where the duel shall be held
any takers buttwipes?
3. hubbard the dual-fiend - March 5, 2009 1:03 PM
this happened to me once.
i had debris floating around me in a pretty orderly fashion,
then a moon was there.
a slut-whore moon.
kinda cool.
but now i have 47 STD's.
4. Elwood Moose - March 5, 2009 1:04 PM
Thats actually the tool box that that tool onthe Shuttle lost a couple months back.
Also: Mmmmm Moon pie.
5. phoring - March 5, 2009 1:06 PM
That can't be real.
This reminds me exactly of the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max exposed his third nipple to pedestrians.
6. paineel - March 5, 2009 1:06 PM
damn so you can actually say.
Hey your A$$ is as big as a moon and not be exagerating.
because hey baby your moon is that big
7. gizmoduck - March 5, 2009 1:06 PM
we must send the burrito with the jet pack up there to kick some tail.
are you a bad enough dude?
8. Michael - March 5, 2009 1:10 PM
That's no moon...
It's a space station.
9. Flameblade - March 5, 2009 1:11 PM
I'm pretty sure Saturn has more moons than Jupiter.
10. LSDiesel - March 5, 2009 1:15 PM
If that's a moon, and Rhode Island is a state, than Pluto is a Planet. Case Closed.
11. messiah - March 5, 2009 1:21 PM
It's a trap! It's a trap!
12. poodles - March 5, 2009 1:39 PM
damn specs of space debris on my space camera lens!
13. Pew³ - March 5, 2009 1:40 PM
That's too big to be a space station! It's almost in range.
14. poodles - March 5, 2009 1:45 PM
if that's a moon, what are those lines that seem to be indicating hyperspeed?
15. Pew³ - March 5, 2009 1:48 PM
Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it.
16. CoinOperatedBoi - March 5, 2009 1:51 PM
What the hell...that's not a picture from space...that's just that Boob app for the iPhone. Psh.....liars....
17. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 5, 2009 2:31 PM
That's not a real moon. That's just Sailor...
18. gypsy - March 5, 2009 2:47 PM
i finally had a cool, witty thing to post, and michael beat me to it. ppppplllt.
19. Phillip J. Fry - March 5, 2009 2:49 PM
It always amazes me when it comes to space stuff. We spend loads of money to look and see what's out there in space. Then paying scientists or whoever loads more money to sit there all day long and look at pictures. "Look we spent months and millions of dollars looking at pictures of planets and stars and we found a 'moon' that's only 1760 feet wide." All for what? So one day we might live in space? Why live there when you can just go for a visit?
Big whoop-de-do. What about the big debt we have here on planet Earth.
They should take all the money they spent on space exploration and divide it among the citizens. If they want a stimulus package to help out the people here's your answer.
20. Pat - March 5, 2009 3:25 PM
@8 beat me to it!
21. Gando - March 5, 2009 3:46 PM
Did they found my watch? I must have been carried on during one of my bare-chested meditation sessions.
22. Sauron - March 5, 2009 3:50 PM
So it turned out it wasn't a real toilet seat? I had to take a big shit when i passed Saturn some time ago.No more bacon dishes for me anymore!
23. Your Mom's Lunch - March 5, 2009 4:32 PM
"That's no moon."
It's obviously a space ship, if it's only 1/3 mile.
Duh.
I'm selling butthole tape if you're interested in keeping the functions of your rectum to yourself and not sharing with inquisitive extraterrestrials.
24. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 5, 2009 4:45 PM
That's not even big enough to be a space station, let alone a moon! Shit, my friend's wife is bigger than that, but we don't call her a moon....a rhino maybe, but not a moon...
25. DreamFolder - March 5, 2009 5:52 PM
In the "somebody had to say it" category...
I wonder what they'll find in the rings around Uranus.
26. kat - March 5, 2009 11:16 PM
haha moon-whore
you're so clever gw
@10 i agree. pluto will always be a planet in my book
27. Laurel Kornfeld - March 7, 2009 1:18 AM
To Tangelax: don't feel sorry for Pluto--join the fight for its reinstatement as a planet. Visit http://www.dwarfplanetsrplanets2.com for contact information to email the IAU and its president, Catherine Cesarsky, asking that the IAU reopen this issue at its General Assembly this summer.