If they insist that the barycenter rule distinguishes moons from non-moons, then I suppose they would have to be. We just got through learning that Pluto has three moons; now Pluto and Charon would be a double planet that share two collective moons.
This is all about words, but, still, the actual complexity of the situation doesn't seem to justify the complexity of the nomenclature.
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:17 pm (UTC)This is all about words, but, still, the actual complexity of the situation doesn't seem to justify the complexity of the nomenclature.