[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. I'd read this yesterday, and it seemed as if we'd had a topic about it because I remember someone bitching about how these are satellites rather than moons -- btw, they are moons -- but I didn't check, so, mea culpa.

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Of the over 1,100,000 asteroids we've discovered, over 150 are known to have at least one moon.

[Monkey Face]

I’d been taught since I was old enough to read about the solar system (so little was known!) that a moon WAS a satellite.

Maybe, like so many other things, the definitions of both have changed.

‘Face

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