luc Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4511715.stm Now Saturn is credited with 46 moons, but still far away from Jupiter, with 63
nomadd22 Posted May 12, 2005 Posted May 12, 2005 How many moons a planet has isn't so much counting them as defining what a moon is. Are you going to count every speck of dust?
Ophiolite Posted May 14, 2005 Posted May 14, 2005 3kms in diameter is not quite a 'speck of dust'. We have been misled into what to expect from a satellite by our own moon. It isn't so much a moon as a sister planet. (Or perhaps more accurately a daughter, given its origin.)
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