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By Ted Twietmeyer
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Logically one would think that craters on celestial bodies in our Solar System are usually round. Our moon has shown this to be true with hundreds of round craters, and laboratory experiments using miniature meteors blasted into dry sand also produce round craters. This would make sense, since the shock wave from an impact perpendicular to a celestial body's surface by a meteor or asteroid would radiate outward in a 360 degree pattern. Even if the impact isn't perfectly straight down, material will still be displaced in all directions to some degree, even creating a tear- drop shaped craters.
 
Today we know that out there in our Solar System on some of our moons, craters and other features are not round but polygon-shaped, usually with six sides. At first glance this may seem insignificant, but it is not. Iapetus is another moon has numerous craters which clearly appear to have polygon shapes:
 
Photos and the rest of the story here.
http://www.rense.com/general80/moons.htm

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