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Pluto's fourth moon discovered

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  • #2
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,379 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Awesome! Can't wait for New Horizons in 2015.


  • #3
    dbran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭dbran


    Hi

    Anyone with loads of time on their hands who is interested in helping out deciding where New Horisons is going after Pluto should try here

    http://www.icehunters.org/

    Have fun :)

    dbran


  • #4
    Leman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Leman


    I was under the impression that Pluto doesn't actually have ANY moons, because the Barycenter is located outside of Pluto itself, making them more Binary/Multiple-Dwarf-Planet than Planet-Moon.


  • #5
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Leman wrote: »
    I was under the impression that Pluto doesn't actually have ANY moons, because the Barycenter is located outside of Pluto itself, making them more Binary/Multiple-Dwarf-Planet than Planet-Moon.

    I think that that is really just semantics. I suppose it all depends on your point of view in respect of how much you want to read into what is said.. Literally Pluto and Charon are a binary system, but it has always been said that Charon is a moon of Pluto.. I think you just pay your money and takes your choice.

    Mind you you do raise an important point that not many folks are aware of. Thanks for that.

    (PS, I have been told that the Earth has 11 moons. I didn't know that!)


  • #6
    shizz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I think that that is really just semantics. I suppose it all depends on your point of view in respect of how much you want to read into what is said.. Literally Pluto and Charon are a binary system, but it has always been said that Charon is a moon of Pluto.. I think you just pay your money and takes your choice.

    Mind you you do raise an important point that not many folks are aware of. Thanks for that.

    (PS, I have been told that the Earth has 11 moons. I didn't know that!)

    I heard Stephen Fry say that alright but as far as I am aware none of them have been shown to be exactly orbiting earth? Anyone have any article on them showing that they do?


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