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minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThere’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s six 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
There’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s six 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