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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y'know, Pluto isn't a planet...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That's messed up, right?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Found Gus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've heard it both ways.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it's biggest moon status!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Big Moon has gotta be behind this!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Always making waves...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He might suck, but you know it wasn't his decision right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but it's fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought for an object to be a satellite it's orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto's five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter.

There's a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification