Thread: Do Asteroids Deserve to be Called Moons?
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Old 27-January-2005, 04:18 AM
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AFAIK, there is no precise definition, but IMO there is room for the smaller irregular-shaped moons to be called moons. Probably the biggest criteria to be called a moon is that it is an object in a stable orbit around a planet, which brings us to another definitional connundrum. What is a planet?

I would argue that Titan is more a planet than Pluto or Mercury.
Well, just like a moon is an object orbiting a planet, a planet must be orbiting the sun. So, Titan doesn't qualify.
By who's definition? IIRC, there is no formal definition as yet.

Tomba: I don't think there would be a stable orbit like that.
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