(05-15-2023, 08:53 AM)Lods date Wrote:What set me off was there was an MSN article on the newsfeed today that said Saturn had gone past Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites.Like the change in the definition of Pluto, you might want to investigate "What is a Moon, and how it is defined?"
https://www.sciencealert.com/over-60-unk...ing-saturn
I just thought it was funny that 50 years ago we only had about a dozen
Technically these bodies are satellites, whether a satellite is natural or man made makes little difference, nobody "in the trade" calls them moons, moon is outreach / media speak things that go around a planet.
It's a bit like when referring to stars the media call them suns, there is really only one moon, moon is a satellite of earth!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"