This gets me to thinking: Has the ANSI or the ISO set down any criteria on what constitutes a moon? Deimos is pretty damned dinky, so these new moons would be demi-dinky. Are we getting to the point where Saturn would have tens of millions of moons, each the size of a Dodge Neon? If that is the case, what's the flap about Pluto? It's a chunk of rock whipping around the Sun (if a 248-year period meets anyone's definition of "whipping around"), so why not a planet?
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