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Originally Posted by OneOfOne
It could get even murkier, what if the object forms according to the above and is defined as a "planet", but subsequently we find it does not orbit anything else but has objects orbiting it, ie it is the centre of a "system". This would make these objects "moons". So we would have a planetary system that orbits no star, a rogue planet I guess. And what if these "moons" were to have objects orbiting them, do we continue to define a moon as anything that orbits something that is not a star or planet? Fortunately, we may never have the technology to find this amount of detail....my head hurts thinking about it.
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Platonic epicycles gone mad!!!
Best way to solve this crisis is to liberally apply Occam's Razor and a judicious amount of denial...."No, never saw that object at all in the pics...doesn't exist!!"
