Not again...
Is there anything out there that doesn't have a moon?
NASA's hypothesised that MU69, the Kuiper Belt object that is the New Horizons probe's next destination, has a moon. To figure out what awaits New Horizons at MU69 we've peered at it with telescopes, a process that yielded a hypothesis that the object is one rock that looks a bit like a duck, or might even be two rocks …
I'll see your moon and raise you the sun. (That way you'll save it having to get up tomorrow). Its moon(s) is the earth and all the other planetses and Pluto is still a planetses - so there!
And from where I live I see the sun go round me just like the moon, so the sun must be a moon or the sun is flat!
I'll think I'll found the flat sun society. Bound to get lots and lots of members if I do.*
Anyways, the serious thing is - *ANOTHER* ducky shaped bit of rock?? WTF is the matter with the universe these days? Does this one phart? Enquiring minds etc ...
* Sadly that bit's not a joke.
The Intelligent life cigar-cum-turd-shaped intergalactic asteroid-cum-spaceship hurtling through the solar system doesn't, yet, have a "moon".
You are right this is just one rock with a tiny pebble orbiting it. Calling it a "moon" is ridiculous more so than calling Pluto a planet.
Is there anything out there that doesn't have a moon?
Strictly speaking (no, not the 'dance' competition..), the Moon isn't actually a moon but rather part of a binary planet system.
Or so I was told by an astronomer at a party. And he wouldn't lie would he? Even if we'd consumed considerable amounts of incofrol by that time..
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They've finally found the nuke-launched manhole cover.
...for the boffins who constantly remind us that, whilst we do know quite a lot, really the universe is never going to run out of surprises.
Plus top marks for some first rate science, engineering, flying and teamwork.
I mention flying because it can’t be trivial to intercept the shadow of a rock that’s a few billion miles away. It’s not like there is a dark shadow racing across the ground to aim for. Plus it’s a really valuable trick that no other telescope in the world can do, so keeping it funded seems quite important!
Altogether now, hip hip?