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		dalbasal on July 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about Do astronomers get as fiery about taxanomy as biologists do? I kind of had the impression they're easy going about naming, just more wary of upsetting young enthusiests. I heard there were many sternly worded letters from 9 year olds, after the demotion of Pluto. Slightly related, are all the particles in (eg) Saturn's rings wver referred to as moons?

kersny on July 19, 2018 [–]

Seems like they do: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04115.pdf

dalbasal on July 20, 2018 | [–]

Oh wow. This is basically a paper about astrologists. Was it published under astrology or anthropology?

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