<P> In 1981, following the Voyager spacecraft's flight past Saturn, scientists noticed a resemblance between one of the planet's moons, Mimas, and the Death Star . Additionally, a few astronomers sometimes use the term "Death Star" to describe Nemesis, a hypothetical star postulated in 1984 to be responsible for gravitationally forcing comets and asteroids from the Oort cloud toward Earth . </P> <P> Kenner and AMT created a playset and a model, respectively, of the first Death Star . In 2005 and 2008, Lego released models of Death Star II and Death Star I, respectively . In 1979, Palitoy created a heavy card version of the Death Star as a playset for the vintage range of action figures in the UK, Australia and Canada . Both Death Stars are part of different Micro Machines three - packs . The Death Stars and locations in them are cards in Decipher, Inc.'s and Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, respectively . Hasbro released a Death Star model that transforms into a Darth Vader mech . Estes Industries released a flying model rocket version . </P> <P> A Death Star trinket box was also released by Royal Selangor in 2015, in conjunction with the upcoming December screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens . In 2016, Plox released the official levitating Death Star Speaker in anticipation of the upcoming screening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story . </P> <P> In 2012--13, a proposal on the White House's website urging the United States government to build a real Death Star as an economic stimulus and job creation measure gained more than 30,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response . The official (tongue - in - cheek) response was released in January 2013: the cost of building a real Death Star has been estimated at $850 quadrillion by the Lehigh University, or about 13,000 times the amount of mineable resources on Earth, while the International Business Times cited a Centives economics blog calculation that, at current rates of steel production, the Death Star would not be ready for more than 833,000 years . The White House response also stated "the Administration does not support blowing up planets," and questioned funding a weapon "with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one - man starship" as reasons for denying the petition . </P>

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