I'll have more details in News tomorrow morning but I just got word that 12 more satellites have been found orbiting Saturn. Of course, eventually, the scientific community is going to have to set a bottom line on how small something can be and still be considered a satellite. Otherwise every particle in the rings will have to be counted. Patrick
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 ;) Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
I'll have more details in News tomorrow morning but I just got word that 12 more satellites have been found orbiting Saturn.
Of course, eventually, the scientific community is going to have to set a bottom line on how small something can be and still be considered a satellite. Otherwise every particle in the rings will have to be counted.
Patrick
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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 :-)
You mean all you Guys out there, aren't really Guys? :) At 11:01 PM 5/3/2005 -0600, you wrote:
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 :-)
Bingo! ;) Quoting Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com>:
You mean all you Guys out there, aren't really Guys? :)
At 11:01 PM 5/3/2005 -0600, you wrote:
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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On Tue, 03 May 2005 23:01:48 -0600, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
�diveboss@xmission.com wrote: �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.
Actually, "moon" means large satellite orbiting a planet, "Moon" is the name of our moon. Notice the capitalization. Same goes for Earth; capitalized, it's the name of our planet, lower case it means dirt. :) Rich Allen
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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