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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoTwin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoCharon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoThat seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoI thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-26 months agoThere’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter. There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoHe might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoYeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.
Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
I thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
There’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter.
There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
He might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
Yeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.