09-21-2018, 10:47 AM
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??? You cut out the part where I was quoting someone else? (DDG since I didn't evaluate their link)
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Yes, I saw that you quoted a search result, and I didn't re-quote it because a) the "quote" tool didn't capture it and b) I didn't feel like copy-pasting it since anyone reading can simply scroll up two posts and read it themselves. I responded to it because you posted the search result with no indication that you took it at anything but face value.
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Does it stutter?
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I already said the moon has a core, when I wrote, "...these numbers include the molten cores and mantles of both bodies...." Not sure what point you're trying to make here?
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09-21-2018, 12:14 PM
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Maybe there's a black hole waiting to be named. The Marsden Hole. Hmm.
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Already exists in the UK 
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09-21-2018, 12:38 PM
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Vman455 — Okay, it just seemed odd.
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Analyses of the Moon's time-variable rotations [!] indicate that the core is at least partly molten.
Does it stutter?
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Maybe stutter isn't the word for 'speeds up and slows down'.
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09-21-2018, 01:25 PM
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Why should the moon not be considered to be the same as a planet in most practical ways? It's big enough to be round, is internally differentiated, has a bit of geology going on...
If not Luna, how about Titan? It's got an atmosphere, with oceans (or at least big lakes) & rivers, which is more than Mercury & Mars have.
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09-22-2018, 03:54 PM
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What would you call three moons orbiting.... nothing?
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09-22-2018, 05:45 PM
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Planets orbit stars. Moons orbit planets.
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Pluto has 5 moons, so it must be a (dwarf) planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto
Though it is much smaller that the biggest moon in our solar system: Ganymede
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09-22-2018, 06:16 PM
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Pluto has fleas?
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09-22-2018, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
A: A "simulation" of something that may/may not physically exist.
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Given a mature space program, I think it would be worth setting up a space hotel or something simply to make one exist. Maybe in an halo orbit at a La
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Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
And so it is with moons?
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09-23-2018, 04:47 AM
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Pluto has fleas?
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If Pluto has fleas then Uranus has flies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus
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