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One 10 kms in diameter.
At what size does it stop being considered a moon and start being considered space debris?
I find it rather ridiculous that pluto isn’t a planet but this is a moon.
“dwarf moon” in 3… 2…
Saturn: laughs nervously
Apparently there is no established size requirement
There is no established lower limit on what is considered a “moon”. Every natural celestial body with an identified orbit around a planet of the Solar System, some as small as a kilometer across, has been considered a moon, though objects a tenth that size within Saturn’s rings, which have not been directly observed, have been called moonlets. Small asteroid moons (natural satellites of asteroids), such as Dactyl, have also been called moonlets.
Um…Pluto’s a planet!
Moon named finger
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Where’s the space bidet when ya need it?
