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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months agoSo tell me about Jupiter
Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months agoSo tell me about Jupiter
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
Good question! I had forgotten about Jupiter’s Trojans and Greek asteroids!
I went and checked the definiton of Clearing the Neighborhood by IAU, emphasis mine:
Trojans and Greeks orbit Jupiter’s LaGrange points in a stable orbit and so they are governed by Jupiter’s gravity. You could say they’re really weird moons orbiting semi-stable points Jupiter creates. Image
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So since there are like 95 moons (as of last Feb) of jupiter, I’m calling out a dwarf planet