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Re:Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about by dalbasal on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:12AM (#17565271)
Do astronomers get as fiery about taxanomy as biologists do? I kind of had the impression they're easy going about naming, just more wary of upsetting young enthusiests. I heard there were many sternly worded letters from 9 year olds, after the demotion of Pluto.

Slightly related, are all the particles in (eg) Saturn's rings wver referred to as moons?

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Re:Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about by kersny on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:44AM (#17565659)
Seems like they do: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04115.pdf
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Re:Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about by dalbasal on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:18PM (#17576944)
Oh wow. This is basically a paper about astrologists. Was it published under astrology or anthropology?
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