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(Rephrase) Ok...The Earth and the moon (as a system) are big in comparison to other planet and moon systems..?
I came here to ask some questions and possibly learn a few things from some people who are actually knowledgeable...and I get told "I don't have a clue what I write about"....well FU! you have a lot to learn too...can't wait until your car breaks down!
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- FaessonLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Just as you lump all responses with the ONE response that you quoted, I will also generalize and assume you didn't actually re-read your first question, after receiving such a negative comment about its structure? Did you for a moment say to yourself, "Gosh, maybe I could have worded that better?"
The Earth / Moon system NEARLY qualifies as a double planet, but "nearly" isn't really enough in astronomy, leading to misunderstandings, like the statement that "Jupiter is NEARLY large enough to be a brown dwarf star", when in fact, it is several orders of magnitude too light to ever be classed as one.
What we have is a large moon relative to its primary. That's all.
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
yes, it could almost be considered a double planet
the Moon is relatively large in comparison to the Earth.
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are sometimes treated as a binary system because the barycentre of their orbits does not lie within either body.[16] The IAU has yet to formalise a definition for binary dwarf planets, and until it passes such a ruling, they classify Charon as a moon of Pluto
But Pluto makes up for its small size by having the most gargantuan moon -- compared to its planet -- in the solar system.
- DLMLv 71 decade ago
The Moon is one of the most massive natural satellites relative to its primary (the planet it orbits). But the system itself has less mass than any of the gas giants.
The only planet/satellite system that is less massive than the Earth-Moon is the Mars-Phobos-Deimos system.
One could argue the Pluto-Charon-Hydra-Nix system is smaller as well, which it is, but definitions and terminologies make that one a semantical argument that I'm not going to consider.
- 1 decade ago
Well, we haven't found any Earth-size planet systems yet. I guess the best quickest answer is Pluto and it's three known moons. And I know Pluto is no longer classified as a 'normal' planet, but it technically still a system.
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