Well, around Saturn, of course, many many millions of them collectively are called "Saturn's rings". But, just imagine if someone actually wanted to count and name those rocks. <g>

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:25 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2 more for Saturn

--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:

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I also wonder just how small an orbiting chunk of stuff has to be before they stop calling it a natural satellite (or moon). I mean, what would one call an orbiting 5 or 10 meter wide piece of ice or rock?

A chunk of ice or a boulder.