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Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y'know, Pluto isn't a planet...
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That's messed up, right?
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Found Gus.
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I've heard it both ways.
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A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it's biggest moon status!
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Big Moon has gotta be behind this!
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Always making waves...
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Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
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Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
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That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
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I thought for an object to be a satellite it's orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
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There's currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto's five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter.
There's a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
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He might suck, but you know it wasn't his decision right?
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Yeah, but it's fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.
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