Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SunkenCiv

From that picture I counted at least 100 other “moons”. Moon is defined as a “natural satellite around a planet”.

Pluto may be a dog but he aint’ no planet, at least according the same guys.


9 posted on 07/16/2012 3:53:43 PM PDT by Cyman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Cyman; SunkenCiv; wastedyears; neverdem

I still think that Pluto’s “demotion” from a planet wqas By the Euro’s out of jealousy/anti-US attitudes when Bush was president because Pluto had been discovered by an American.

Still, this was the first moon I had heard of other than Charon!

Now, on a technical note, Pluto was being looked for because of the problems in Neptune’s orbit problems that finding Uranus DIDN’T solve. But Pluto is too small and too far away to change either Uranus’ orbit or Neptune’s orbit.

So, what was the final answer to Neptune’s orbit? Was Uranus sufficient, or is there an orbital discrepancy?


10 posted on 07/16/2012 4:33:35 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson