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To: ClearCase_guy

...Wait...it has a moon? I thought it wasn’t a planet??? It can be a whatever and have a moon??


3 posted on 04/27/2016 6:52:15 AM PDT by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: smartymarty

The only thing that determines whether it can have a moon or not is the laws of gravity, and gravity doesn’t pay attention to whether we call it a “planet” or not.


10 posted on 04/27/2016 7:25:38 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: smartymarty

Asteroids can have moons too. Ida and Dactyl, for example. A moon doesn’t necessarily have to orbit a planet.


12 posted on 04/27/2016 7:45:27 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: smartymarty

The moon has a moon........................


16 posted on 04/27/2016 8:02:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: smartymarty
It's a dwarf planet, according to the new terminology, along with former planet Pluto.

Pluto has five known moons. The dwarf planet Eris (the largest of the group) has one, and Haumea has two.

17 posted on 04/27/2016 8:06:23 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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