Well......... IS our Moon a planet ?

[Ukastronomer]

https://www.universetoday.com/85749/is-the-moon-a-planet/

Or

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28487-our-moon-would-be-a-planet-under-new-definition-of-planethood/

[skysurfer]

Referred on the largest online astronomy textbook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet), it says: NO.






The Moon does not orbit the Sun directly, so it is not a planet.

[Ukastronomer]

Scientists say it may be

[Hemi]

Well strictly speaking it does, just in a complex manner :)

Interesting and an age old question.:question:

[OICURMT]

Earth-Moon barycenter is within the earth. Moon is a satellite.

[Camelopardalis]

In the past, it sounds like it was its own body and happened to stray into Earth's gravity well...and the rest, as they say, is history :D

[Nikolas]

Except that theory seems to have been disproven and that it formed after another sphere collided with primordial earth (https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/nasa-scientist-jen-heldmann-describes-how-the-earths-moon-was-formed/) billions of years ago, the resulting mess coalesced into the moon. when the astronauts brought back moon samples the geological makeup was very similar to Earth's

[leon]

Just let it be the Moon, :) next the Sun will be an Asteroid of sorts :shrug:

Leon

[Slawomir]

We humans do enjoy complicating even the simplest things.