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Yes, but then you'd have to consider the gravitational effect of Mars/Saturn/Jupiter. What happens to the pen then?!?
by char 17y ago
Yes, but then you'd have to consider the gravitational effect of Mars/Saturn/Jupiter. What happens to the pen then?!?
- JeanPierre 17y agoIt will still be attracted, because all other gravitational forces apart from the gravitational force on that moon will be negligible.
- char 17y agoYes, I know. I was trying to be sarcastic. :)
- tjmc 17y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the terms "moon" and "satellite" are basically interchangeable. There's some use of the term "moonlet" for very small bodies but there isn't a defined size you have to reach to be officially a moon (unlike a planet to the disappointment of Pluto fans). So drop your pen in a dusty part of Saturn's rings for example and it might be the biggest "moon" around and start attracting smaller bodies to itself.