Oh Yeah? Then how come on Astronomy Day while you were at the Big Scope eye balling Jupiter, and I was watching the jar, you were telling those folks who would listen, that those 4 little star looking things, were it's moons. Make up my mind! ;) Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Patrick,
Considering Earth has some 10,000 satellites circling it, you would think the scientific community has already defined what size a satellite is. Unless you mean moons ;)
Pet peeve alert! <grin>
"Moon" (or Luna) is the name of Earth's satellite. There is only one Moon. Calling all natural satellites "moon" is like calling all members of SLAS Guy.
Patrick :-)
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