Why are Titan and Ganymede not considered planets? They are both larger than Mercury.
Why are Titan and Ganymede not considered planets? They are both larger than Mercury.
Why are Titan and Ganymede not considered planets? They are both larger than Mercury.
Why are Titan and Ganymede not considered planets? They are both larger than Mercury.
Location, location, location....
Size does not matter. :mrgreen:
They orbit planets. Those planets are what orbit the sun.
Because they orbit a planet, which makes them moons. If they revolved around the sun WITHOUT orbiting another planet then they would likely be considered planets.
ETA: Bubba beat me to it
But the qualification to be a planet does not say anything about location...
Why can't a moon be a planet?
plan·et
/ˈplanət/
noun
noun: planet; plural noun: planets
a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
Not around another planet.
I see, you are in one of those moods this evening.
Why can't a moon be a planet?
Any specific reason you want moons to be planets?
Or are yah just bored?
How can a celestial body bigger than a planet not be a planet itself? It makes no sense...
They do move in an epileptic orbit around a star...
Because words mean things?
Around a planet.
Words are made up and can mean whatever we want them to mean...
Yeah, like the word "trolling", I could instead use the word "Bodhisattva", and it would be accurate.
Suppose you're right.
Why are Titan and Ganymede not considered planets? They are both larger than Mercury.
Because they are moons, locked into orbit around Saturn and Jupiter.
That simply says how it is now... not why it is what it is...
Why can't planets orbit planets? Suns can orbit suns...