Mimas

== Overview ==
The 21th-largest moon in the Solar System, Mimas is the innermost major moon and the smallest major moon in the Saturnian system. Mimas is covered with impact craters left by asteriods and comets millions to billions of years ago, but the most noteworthy one is the Herschel crater, because it has a massive crater with a diameter of roughly 139 km.https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2478 Due to this massive crater, the moon is occasionally referred to as the "Death Star Moon" because of how it looks.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon) It's the smallest known celestial entity with a spherical shape due to self-gravitation. Accordingly, Mimas' current rotation does not truly place it in hydrostatic equilibrium.
== Formation ==
Similar to the process assumed to have created the planets in the Solar System, co-accretion is how the moons of Saturn are theorised to have formed. The young Saturn was encircled by material discs that eventually solidified into moons like Mimas.
== Orbit ==
Every 22h44m06.25s, Mimas completes an orbit around Saturn and around 181794.16 km is the average distance between Mimas and Saturn.
Category:Objects
Category:Real objects
Category:Moons
Category:Solar System
Category:Aquaria