No, not a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Verona Rupes is the name of a feature on Miranda, the smallest and closest-in of the five major moons of the planet Uranus.

Verona Rupes is actually a cliff. APOD says it’s the tallest known cliff in the Solar System — over 12 miles straight down. Now there’s a challenge for rock climbers.

APOD is however wrong. Verona Rupes is not the tallest known cliff in the Solar System. The tallest known cliff in the Solar System is the one the U.S. economy will fall off if we don’t get serious about cutting back the federal government.

That’s “serious” as in “closing down entire cabinet-level departments, raising the social security eligibility age to 75 next week, ending foreign aid, and selling whole carrier groups for scrap.” The GOP’s proposed 2012 budget is a modest start, though nothing like enough.