How many moons does earth have? - Qi - BBC

The obvious answer is not always the right one on this Quite Interesting panel show... Hilarious comic answers in this clip from BBC worldwide.

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[TheGator2000]

Because it was discovered in 199 FUCKING 4

[Scotch7000]

seriously took me a 30 second google search to find out that it wasnt actually a moon. how did the qi researchers mess that up?

[rauj13]

At the time this was filmed, it was classified as a moon. It has since been reclassified.

[Werrf1]

No. By definition, a satellite is an object that orbits another object. Moons are a distinct type of satellite, large, natural satellites, mostly spherical ones. Another type of satellite is a ring system like Saturn's. The man-made satellites you're referring to are more properly called "Artificial Satellites".

[noxure]

By definition, a satellite is an artificial moon. That's the generally accepted definition of a satellite, I don't have to make this shit up.

The moon is a concrete object and all stellar objects that behave similarly to the moon are called moons, but they have different names.

We make abstractions to communicate on a higher level. You "should" try to do the same instead of wasting time with the idiocy of pointless semantic discussions.

[SuperDF118]

and then, pray, what shall we call the satellites?

[Evi1M4chine]

You are wrong *too*. It is *quasi*-moon. Meaning sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Because sometimes it can be caught by earth and released so much later that it factually is a moon, but then gets out anyway and continues its travel. At least that’s what Wikepedia says. (So beware the admins’ bias and delusions.)

[BrothersWeird]

It was a moon with this episode aired - this was before the standards were set by the IUPAC, which, among other things, demoted Pluto.

[ThethingAndit AndYou]

I do >:D

[ithinkitsaurus]

GIVE ALAN HIS POINTS BACK. Cruithne is a minor planet that has a horseshoe orbit of the sun.