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I wonder when these are gonna go the way of Pluto: Saturn has n moons and a shit-ton of dwarf moons. Wouldn't know where the threshold is though, because someth

by carlob 7y ago

I wonder when these are gonna go the way of Pluto: Saturn has n moons and a shit-ton of dwarf moons. Wouldn't know where the threshold is though, because something like Phoebe is an absolute outlier.

taneq 7y ago
That was my immediate thought - that the definition of ‘moon’ must have recently changed.
- nsilvestri 7y ago
  Currently, the only way the definition of 'moon' can change is if it gets defined at all.