coalescenteThe forgotten. Delicate snowballs conglomerated with frigid rocks wandering the outskirts of a solar system. The long-remembered, the perpetually misclassified, the body condemned to an orbit of eccentric solitude. About its diminutive existence, its inclined orbital plane, its glacial heart of nitrogen ice, its endless delicacy. My sweetness among all, my Sputnik Planitia, which reduced in nomenclature but truly, never in existence.
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Sputnik Planitia - what a beautiful phrase
Even more beautiful to know: it is in fact a vast partially glaciated impact basin filled predominantly with nitrogen ice. Very dainty.
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