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Old 04-02-2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
That's why I thought about making Mars the smallest planet . That way Mercury, Jovian moons, Titan, Triton, Pluto, Sedna, Quoar etc come into the planetoids category. Some of them would still carry the colloquial term moon, but technically be classed as planetoids
Sounds like a good place to start.
Planetoid - the planet you have when your not having a planet.
But what happens if we find two 'larger than mars' size objects that are almost the same size as each other orbiting in partnership. Now we also have to define what is a moon.
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