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To: yarddog
Planets have Roman names. But I guess that they can get around this by claiming it's not a planet.

Then again, the moons all have strange rules. If I remember correctly, the moons of Jupiter have to end with a specific letter. It's something like the moons ending with "a" orbit one way and the ones ending in "o" orbit the other way.

so is it Make - Make or is it Mah Key Mah Key ??

22 posted on 07/20/2008 11:26:21 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

I had never thought about it but they all are Roman names except for Uranus which is Greek.


29 posted on 07/20/2008 12:11:34 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Tanniker Smith

The 4 largest moons (the ones first seen by Galileo) are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—so 3 different final vowels for 4 moons. The largest moons revolve counterclockwise, but a lot of the smaller ones revolve clockwise (which may indicate they are captured asteroids).


40 posted on 07/20/2008 1:18:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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