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minus-squarecally [he/they]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down1·4 days agoWell technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down2·4 days agoA-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·4 days agoBig Moon has gotta be behind this!
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down2·edit-24 days agoThat’s messed up, right?
minus-squaredethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI’ve heard it both ways.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·4 days agoTwin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
minus-squareFauxReal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoHe might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days 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.
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoCharon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days 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-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days 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-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoThat seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
Big Moon has gotta be behind this!
Always making waves…
That’s messed up, right?
Found Gus.
I’ve heard it both ways.
Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
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.
Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
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
That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?