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Offline mdwh2

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Re: 8 Planets
« on: September 09, 2006, 11:08:17 PM »
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True, but since Pluto isnt a planet, Charon isnt a moon (open floodgates!)

Not necessarily true - "moon" seems to be used for any body which orbits a larger one (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite ).

On that note, I find it interesting that no one cares about how many moons we have - we have 240 known moons, some of them as small as 1km, and no one finds that strange...