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Originally Posted by Edymnion
At last count (last I heard anyway), Jupiter has 62 moons, while Saturn has 35. Mars has 2 moons.
However, the majority of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and all of Mar's moons are little more than captured asteroids. They're not even spherical.
Tradition aside, should these satellites be counted as moons?..
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Well, I guess if you think of the technical values between an earth moon (our moon: with dead planet like characteristics) and a big peice of battered rock, then astroid moons are just astroids ... If a moon is called a moon only simply becuase it orbits a planet then I guess they're moons but if a moon has to be spherical and kinda planet like rock with craters or without or an atmosphere perhaps, then I think maybe that is a more appropriate understanding of moons rather than a rock that just so happend to get pulled into the planets gravitational pull and begin to orbit a planet. What can we begin to say about that? It's not really much of a moon. But hey I leave that up to the brilliants minds at NASA and any other Astronomic Facilities and space agencies that study space and its components. If the moon has an atmoshpere and some sort of life growth wether it be an airborne substance other than dust , oran actual living organism would it be more like a planet especially if it carries the consistancy of water or with Titan water ice or whatever it was referred as.