• glimse@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Apparently there is no established size requirement

    There is no established lower limit on what is considered a “moon”. Every natural celestial body with an identified orbit around a planet of the Solar System, some as small as a kilometer across, has been considered a moon, though objects a tenth that size within Saturn’s rings, which have not been directly observed, have been called moonlets. Small asteroid moons (natural satellites of asteroids), such as Dactyl, have also been called moonlets.