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spongeboob [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:47:18 AM  
How many moons does the Earth have?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-earth-moon-dust-clouds-satellites-planets-space
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 11:17:58 AM  
Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.
 
Bondith
2023-02-06 12:10:45 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.


They're, um, dwarf moonlets, yeah, that's it.
 
Maturin [OhFark]
2023-02-06 12:26:13 PM  
Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.
 
austerity101
2023-02-06 12:27:39 PM  
Jupiter has seven moons--or is it nine?
Saturn has a million, billion, trillion sixty-nine.

I hate music ! ; Jupiter has seven moons
Youtube NuK-90SYgPY
 
E.S.Q.
2023-02-06 12:43:56 PM  
Cool- when I was taught how many moons Jupiter has in school, the number was 12.
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-02-06 12:44:12 PM  

Bondith: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

They're, um, dwarf moonlets, yeah, that's it.


The differentiator of "did it clear the orbit" would logically apply.  You might also classify by whether or not it has reached hydrostatic equilibrium, but I think that would leave Mars moonless.
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-02-06 12:45:03 PM  
No way am I even going to pretend on Fark that I'm learning their names.
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-06 12:45:12 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.


Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.
 
austerity101
2023-02-06 12:51:14 PM  

Quantumbunny: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.


The dude who says unions are a "sign of corruption" also thinks they know better than actual scientific experts? Now I've seen everything.
 
sxacho [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 12:55:37 PM  

spongeboob: How many moons does the Earth have?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-earth-moon-dust-clouds-satellites-planets-space


QI Compilation | Alan VS The Moon(s)
Youtube CIqOsM6_3Dw
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-06 1:12:58 PM  

austerity101: Quantumbunny: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.

The dude who says unions are a "sign of corruption" also thinks they know better than actual scientific experts? Now I've seen everything.


So you think every spec that happens to be in orbit, which is BILLIONS of little pebbles in the case of rings... all of those should be called moons?

Or maybe the IAU should be a little consistent. They clarified what a planet is, why not moons?

Also, get over it, cupcake. If you think everyone can be defined and extrapolated from a single viewpoint you disagree, there's no one on Earth you can trust in any subject.
 
Russell_Secord
2023-02-06 1:21:05 PM  
Psst, hey buddy, wanna upgrade from moon to planetoid? I can arrange it for ya, if ya know what I mean.
 
buckeyebrain
2023-02-06 1:24:36 PM  
How many moons does Uranus have?
 
bigdog1960
2023-02-06 1:26:14 PM  

Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.


Uranus was called George for about ten years.
 
austerity101
2023-02-06 1:27:35 PM  

Quantumbunny: austerity101: Quantumbunny: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.

The dude who says unions are a "sign of corruption" also thinks they know better than actual scientific experts? Now I've seen everything.

So you think every spec that happens to be in orbit, which is BILLIONS of little pebbles in the case of rings... all of those should be called moons?

Or maybe the IAU should be a little consistent. They clarified what a planet is, why not moons?

Also, get over it, cupcake. If you think everyone can be defined and extrapolated from a single viewpoint you disagree, there's no one on Earth you can trust in any subject.


I'm saying your opinion on both is stupid and ignorant.

By all means pen an angry letter to the Manager of Astonomy so you can complain about their definitions not being to your liking, Karen.

You sure didn't like being reminded of what you've previously said, which is weird, because you're the one who said it. Maybe don't say dumb sh*t if you don't want it called out.
 
bigdog1960
2023-02-06 1:27:48 PM  

Quantumbunny: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.


Why change measurement standards mid sentence?
 
Dinjiin [BareFark]
2023-02-06 1:43:28 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.


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Maturin [OhFark]
2023-02-06 1:49:29 PM  

bigdog1960: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

Uranus was called George for about ten years.


Leave my wife out of this.
 
buckeyebrain
2023-02-06 1:53:07 PM  

bigdog1960: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

Uranus was called George for about ten years.


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TheMysteriousStranger
2023-02-06 1:59:03 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.


True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.
 
brainlordmesomorph
2023-02-06 2:25:57 PM  

Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.


It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 2:32:59 PM  

brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").


Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".
 
dbirchall [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 2:36:38 PM  
Great, Scott!*

I'll just defenestrate all these freshly-obsoleted latest editions of solar system books.

/I kid, I kid.
//*Started running big telescopes right around the time Scott got his PhD, and have had him as an observer.
 
dbirchall [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 2:38:53 PM  

brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").


Or as in "luna-see"
 
chitownmike
2023-02-06 2:42:32 PM  

Bondith: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

They're, um, dwarf moonlets, yeah, that's it.


Aka rocks
 
brainlordmesomorph
2023-02-06 2:59:02 PM  

Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").

Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".


They are Terra and Luna, (that's official) and its not that astronomers are bad at naming things, it that the average American is an uneducated simp, that's why your schoolbooks said "The Earth" and "The Moon" while everything else had names.
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-02-06 3:01:07 PM  

Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").

Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".


I'm a resident of Sol-3, thank you very much.

And while I'm still workshopping it, I think I might go with 'Sun' is the star you're presently orbiting, Sol is the name of our particular star, and as a general rule we should refer to 'planetary systems' not 'star systems', because 'star systems' should be systems of stars.

/Due to the distances and expense of interstellar travel, the importance of the nomenclature outlined above has been permanently assigned a value of 'none at all'.
 
jack_o_the_hills
2023-02-06 3:03:29 PM  
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Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 3:03:58 PM  

brainlordmesomorph: Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").

Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".

They are Terra and Luna, (that's official) and its not that astronomers are bad at naming things, it that the average American is an uneducated simp, that's why your schoolbooks said "The Earth" and "The Moon" while everything else had names.


Tell that to https://www.iau.org/public/themes/our_moon/

The designation of our Moon is, therefore, the Moon, with a capital M and used as a name (a proper noun). The same applies to the designation of our planet - the Earth, of our Solar System (IAU Style Manual, 1989) and to all the other major planets.
 
Nintenfreak [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:13:57 PM  

Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").

Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".

They are Terra and Luna, (that's official) and its not that astronomers are bad at naming things, it that the average American is an uneducated simp, that's why your schoolbooks said "The Earth" and "The Moon" while everything else had names.

Tell that to https://www.iau.org/public/themes/our_moon/

The designation of our Moon is, therefore, the Moon, with a capital M and used as a name (a proper noun). The same applies to the designation of our planet - the Earth, of our Solar System (IAU Style Manual, 1989) and to all the other major planets.


But 8f you're writing science fiction you can call it Luna or something they shouldn't be speaking English in the future anyways
 
Copperbelly watersnake
2023-02-06 3:54:03 PM  

Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.


Satellite Bob
 
WordsnCollision [OhFark]
2023-02-06 4:05:15 PM  
Moon 83
Youtube 0T38HGu9cbc


/inconsolable
 
clkeagle [BareFark]
2023-02-06 4:48:57 PM  

Unsung_Hero: Bondith: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

They're, um, dwarf moonlets, yeah, that's it.

The differentiator of "did it clear the orbit" would logically apply.  You might also classify by whether or not it has reached hydrostatic equilibrium, but I think that would leave Mars moonless.


I always enjoyed Edgar Rice Burroughs' descriptions in the Barsoom novels--talking about the moons "hurling" their way across the night skies.
 
DON.MAC [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:10:43 PM  
Can we ask Neil deGrasse Tyson what a dwarf moon is?
 
Arkanaut
2023-02-06 6:18:28 PM  

buckeyebrain: How many moons does Uranus have?


Two big ones, and a ring of debris?
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-06 6:51:11 PM  

austerity101: Quantumbunny: austerity101: Quantumbunny: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

Or wet could cut out most of this BS about have dozens of moons and say that a moon had to be large enough to be hydrostatically spherical.

Each pebble in orbit of a planet doesn't need to be called a moon. Some of these Jupiter and Saturn "moons" are only a few km in diameter, one is not even a mile.

That's no moon.

The dude who says unions are a "sign of corruption" also thinks they know better than actual scientific experts? Now I've seen everything.

So you think every spec that happens to be in orbit, which is BILLIONS of little pebbles in the case of rings... all of those should be called moons?

Or maybe the IAU should be a little consistent. They clarified what a planet is, why not moons?

Also, get over it, cupcake. If you think everyone can be defined and extrapolated from a single viewpoint you disagree, there's no one on Earth you can trust in any subject.

I'm saying your opinion on both is stupid and ignorant.

By all means pen an angry letter to the Manager of Astonomy so you can complain about their definitions not being to your liking, Karen.

You sure didn't like being reminded of what you've previously said, which is weird, because you're the one who said it. Maybe don't say dumb sh*t if you don't want it called out.


It's more like I'm annoyed you are bringing up irrelevant things. You call me wrong, I call you wrong. It's an opinion, but not one you should extrapolate across every subject because you got your jimmies russled in one.

I didn't farkie you, like you obviously did me. And if you want to avoid discussions about unionizing workers, go for it. But it's not relevant here and you bringing it up in other contexts is a childish ad hominem.

So again, get over it.
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-06 6:57:39 PM  

TheMysteriousStranger: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.


Careful, austerity101will call you out for outrageous claims like wanting a reasonable discussion on object classification.

Personally, I agree. I don't think Jupiter has 92 moons, Saturn probably doesn't have billions or trillions, Earth seems like it has one.

I think those compilations on QI are an excellent illustration of the silliness arguing over Earth's moon count.
 
Nicholas D. Wolfwood [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 8:19:46 PM  
Unrelated, but it's the closest thread in intent I can find. We have Ooontz for a Falcon 9 launch of the Amazonas Nexus comsat for Spain, and a likely 33-engine static fire test for Super Heavy, possibly as early as tomorrow.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-07 1:03:46 AM  

Nintenfreak: Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Ivo Shandor: brainlordmesomorph: Maturin: Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named.

And yet, Earth's moon is just....moon. I think I'll call it George.

It's called Luna, (as in "lunar").

Officially it's "the Moon" but astronomers suck at naming stuff. I personally think that Luna is a better name. And I identify as Terran, not "Earthling".

They are Terra and Luna, (that's official) and its not that astronomers are bad at naming things, it that the average American is an uneducated simp, that's why your schoolbooks said "The Earth" and "The Moon" while everything else had names.

Tell that to https://www.iau.org/public/themes/our_moon/

The designation of our Moon is, therefore, the Moon, with a capital M and used as a name (a proper noun). The same applies to the designation of our planet - the Earth, of our Solar System (IAU Style Manual, 1989) and to all the other major planets.

But 8f you're writing science fiction you can call it Luna or something they shouldn't be speaking English in the future anyways


Why not? All the aliens speak it.
 
haknudsen
2023-02-07 1:53:34 AM  

TheMysteriousStranger: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.


1km is not a speck of dust.
 
Captain Shaky
2023-02-07 5:09:09 AM  

haknudsen: TheMysteriousStranger: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.

1km is not a speck of dust.


Assuming it is spherical and exactly 1km across... By my calculations, it would have enough surface area to support 776 cows.

That sounds like a moon by my definition.
 
clkeagle [BareFark]
2023-02-07 1:02:06 PM  

Captain Shaky: haknudsen: TheMysteriousStranger: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.

1km is not a speck of dust.

Assuming it is spherical and exactly 1km across... By my calculations, it would have enough surface area to support 776 cows.

That sounds like a moon by my definition.


What's the cutoff? Anything under 750 cows doesn't get classified as a moon?
 
Bondith
2023-02-07 3:04:33 PM  

clkeagle: Captain Shaky: haknudsen: TheMysteriousStranger: Ivo Shandor: Only if you carefully choose a size cutoff for "moon" which excludes most of the chunks making up Saturn's rings.

True. Astronomers really need a cut off as every pebble, speck of dust, or helium atom should not be a Moon.

/Nor space stations.

1km is not a speck of dust.

Assuming it is spherical and exactly 1km across... By my calculations, it would have enough surface area to support 776 cows.

That sounds like a moon by my definition.

What's the cutoff? Anything under 750 cows doesn't get classified as a moon?


It it's too small to be worth jumping over, it's not a moon.
 
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