I think we should stop calling them Moons

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Justin Kelly — 5/17/2002 12:35:38 PM (archived)

Yikes, 11 more tiny peices of rock. We should probably consider them more like big orbital 'debris' than moons.

What if once our detection methods get good enough we find in the neighborhood of 40-80 rocks in the 500-900 meter range and hundreds in the 200-400 and thousands in the 20-100 meter range etc. . . at what point will we stop calling these things moons?

-Justin Kelly

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Jupiter has 11 new moons (or has captured 11 asteroids *g*). - Marcia - 5/17/2002 9:28:01 AM
- Retrograde moons and gravity - Bowser - 5/18/2002 4:42:07 PM
  - Re: Retrograde moons and gravity - RobVG - 5/18/2002 7:14:41 PM
    - Just the Opposite - Justin Kelly - 5/18/2002 11:39:14 AM
      - Thanks Justin - RobVG - 5/18/2002 3:15:04 PM
        
        Yes - Justin Kelly - 5/19/2002 5:32:37 PM
- I think we should stop calling them Moons - Justin Kelly - 5/17/2002 12:35:38 PM
  - Re: I think we should stop calling them Moons - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2002 4:39:32 PM
    - Re: I think we should stop calling them Moons - p - 5/18/2002 5:23:10 PM
      - Is Pluto a planet? - Tom Brosz - 5/18/2002 6:33:50 PM
        
        Re:Discoveries - Raoul - 5/18/2002 7:11:51 PM
        
        Pluto is Bigger Than Ceres - Mark Eby - 5/19/2002 2:25:30 PM
        
        Re: Re:Discoveries - Raoul - 5/18/2002 7:14:19 PM
        
        Define planets by size, not orbit - Buck Galaxy - 5/19/2002 5:48:05 PM
        
        Good point. Asteroids an obvious exception. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/18/2002 11:49:19 AM
      - the numerical line. . . - Justin Kelly - 5/18/2002 11:32:49 AM
        
        I like it. If it ain't round, it aint a moon (nt) (n/t) - FrankC - 5/18/2002 3:12:35 PM

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