Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth.Until relatively recently, humans believed everything we could see in the sky was orbitingaround the earth.Of course, the Moon was the only thing actually orbiting the earth, and the earth itself wasorbiting a star.But there were other objects orbiting that star that also had things orbiting them, sowe decided to call all of those secondary satellites “moons”, too.Nowadays when people say “moon”, they essentially mean a natural satellite of asatellite of a star, which seems to capture our collective intuition for what distinguishesa moon.However, there’s a problem: space rocks come in all sorts of shapes and sizes andbehave in many ways, many of which don’t at all fit into our traditional idea of amoon.We could at this p...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth.Until relatively recently, humans believed everything we could see in the sky was orbitingaround the earth.Of course, the Moon was the only thing actually orbiting the earth, and the earth itself wasorbiting a star.But there were other objects orbiting that star that also had things orbiting them, sowe decided to call all of those secondary satellites “moons”, too.Nowadays when people say “moon”, they essentially mean a natural satellite of asatellite of a star, which seems to capture our collective intuition for what distinguishesa moon.However, there’s a problem: space rocks come in all sorts of shapes and sizes andbehave in many ways, many of which don’t at all fit into our traditional idea of amoon.We could at this p...
