Why We Can't Figure Out Which Planet Has the Most Moons

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Which has more moons, Jupiter or Saturn? The world may never know...
or we could just change the definition of moon to only include actual spherical objects and not space potatoes
Music used:
Kevin MacLeod - Odyssey - • Kevin MacLeod: Odyssey
Sources:
The History of the Known Solar System: Every Year by Geography and Space:
• The History of the Kno...
"The Population of Kilometer-Scale Jovian Irregular Moons" (study claiming there are potentially 600 moons of Jupiter)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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  • @hpr2986
    @hpr29868 ай бұрын

    >knows possible atmospheric composition of exoplanets >can’t figure out the amount of moons in the solar system and define the term at all I love humanity

  • @kerbalman1513
    @kerbalman15138 ай бұрын

    Now the IAU needs to redefine what a floating rock is.

  • @hstochla

    @hstochla

    6 ай бұрын

    And that will probably make everyone upset with their redefinition

  • @anatoly8293
    @anatoly82938 ай бұрын

    Gets even more complicated when you look into temporarily captured objects and quasi moons. 2006 RH120 was a second moon of Earth for a full year.

  • @radufieroiu4725
    @radufieroiu47258 ай бұрын

    You so underated

  • @ericgolightly8450
    @ericgolightly84508 ай бұрын

    This is what I was thinking. At what point does a pebble orbiting a planet become a moon?

  • @snailinashell
    @snailinashell8 ай бұрын

    Neptune probably has the most moons, we just don't know about them. I say that since it's got the highest hill sphere of any planet and it's right next to the Kuiper Belt

  • @Jonassoe
    @Jonassoe8 ай бұрын

    Astronomers don't use the term "moon" to describe objects that orbit planets. Only the Earth's moon is called "Moon". The generic term is "natural satellite," which I think doesn't promise too much. But yes, categorizing Ganymede together with small potato-shaped rocks is kind of silly.

  • @Edicius_Yelnats
    @Edicius_Yelnats8 ай бұрын

    Under rated youtuber fr

  • @memehi8081
    @memehi80817 ай бұрын

    Nice editing keep up the good work

  • @ozgedumanatilla
    @ozgedumanatilla5 ай бұрын

    It's even funnier when you remember that these "moons" have escape velocities lower than 10 m/s. You can practically run into orbit with these rock.

  • @danfurtado9158
    @danfurtado91588 ай бұрын

    I dont see a point of tiny asteroids becoming moons

  • @penny1672
    @penny16727 ай бұрын

    i have been a proponent of the pluto-charon binary dwarf planet system for ages, because that's just genuinely cooler than charon being a moon of plutos

  • @bunky8077
    @bunky80778 ай бұрын

    4:54 Totally agree!

  • @brianwhite2104

    @brianwhite2104

    8 ай бұрын

    Yes!

  • @Gaming1Doge
    @Gaming1DogeАй бұрын

    it just depends what a moon is, if it's "a visible non-man-made object orbiting a planet" Saturn wins by a landslide, we've seen it's rings for centuries too.

  • @dinodude6992
    @dinodude69926 ай бұрын

    I think that one day, when the human species finally reaches another star system, either with an ftl drive or a long period of time, we will find an exo-planet carrying more moons than either jupiter and saturn, which only causes angry planets as there's a new number one and the didn't even know they existed because they're planetary bodies. Last I checked, we haven't even discovered an exo-moon, probably because something something, a moon orbits a planet, not a star, you'd probably have to physically go to that solar system with a hypothetical exo-planet with the most moons to even gaze upon it. But hey, I don't know if we have already discovered an exo-moon, so don't take my word for granted

  • @ncrwadr
    @ncrwadr8 ай бұрын

    There are major moons like Mimas and dwarf moons like Amalthea.

  • @Meveron_The_Planet
    @Meveron_The_Planet2 ай бұрын

    Suggestion: *Moon* _Gas Giants_ A moon is a natural satellite orbiting a planet that is spherical. _Rocky Planets and Dwarf Planets_ A moon is a natural satellite orbiting a planet. *Dwarf Moons* A natural satellite that orbits a planet, but if around a gas giant or a planet that has over 15 moons, is not spherical.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios7 ай бұрын

    Saturn is cheating, if we want to be pedantic we could count every piece of rock in the rings. But then Jupiter also has rings. And what is the minimum size, can we just say all planets have "unmeasurable amount of moons" and count every piece of dust. And I totally get the issue with being the dominant object considering Janus and Epimetheus switch orbit every couple years when they pull on each other.

  • @thecatgod280
    @thecatgod2808 ай бұрын

    Yes, dwarf moon sounds like feal thing.

  • @thecatgod280

    @thecatgod280

    8 ай бұрын

    Real thing

  • @heffmarktwo

    @heffmarktwo

    8 ай бұрын

    Real

  • @bingusbongus9807
    @bingusbongus9807Ай бұрын

    lets just make two names called moon-chad and moon-cel and all the big boys are moon-chads and all the small dweebs and moon-cels that wat mars gets to keep his moon-cels as moons (moon pilled moon-maxxer)

  • @heffmarktwo

    @heffmarktwo

    Ай бұрын

    i lost approximately 92% of my braincells reading this, thank you

  • @bingusbongus9807

    @bingusbongus9807

    Ай бұрын

    @@heffmarktwo i could only have dreamed of a percentage that high :)

  • @lucasmarchezim881
    @lucasmarchezim8817 ай бұрын

    This video has a stupid high quality for the amount of views it currently has. We will watch your career with great interest young man

  • @lake5044
    @lake50447 ай бұрын

    This is the issue that happens when you try conforming discontinuous functions onto continuous things. Words like planet, star, moon, dwarf, are all discontinuous, is or is not. While most of measurable things are continuous. There are some things that are discontinuous, like the center of gravity being always inside or outside a body. But, stars and blackholes and galaxies have this same issue too, not just moons and planets. The biggest stars and our sun are so different in size, as different as a small asteroid is to a huge planet or more, yet we just call them stars... (P.S. I don't care what Pluto is, I just love Pluto ❤even before they changed its category...)

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell23268 ай бұрын

    Is there such a thing as a moon with a moon?

  • @heffmarktwo

    @heffmarktwo

    8 ай бұрын

    Not in our solar system, but maybe somewhere in the universe…

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    7 ай бұрын

    Ahh, moonmoons a fun thing to think about.

  • @theprehistoricnerd

    @theprehistoricnerd

    6 ай бұрын

    Pretty sure those are called moonlets

  • @ortherner
    @ortherner7 ай бұрын

    I’ve had similar thoughts for a while now. Asteroid moons shouldn’t be considered real moons.

  • @FavoritoHJS
    @FavoritoHJS8 ай бұрын

    i see, bob's crusade against dres removed it from the kerbal universe... then rearranged the universe to ensure not even its debris remains... and even erased mimas from our universe when will he stop! quick, put a jail around ceres before it's too.. late... oh dear... i don't care what it costs, DO NOT let bob get access to the time machine and ensure planet v stays around or god knows what kind of wacko-reality he will create

  • @heffmarktwo

    @heffmarktwo

    8 ай бұрын

    I will do my best

  • @comedyatitsworst
    @comedyatitsworst8 ай бұрын

    can i have,, fourt3een dolaars...,,? eoen wi..,,,,'

  • @comedyatitsworst

    @comedyatitsworst

    8 ай бұрын

    nevjer mindee, ii got aaajfjifrr we good eeop...,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • @heffmarktwo

    @heffmarktwo

    8 ай бұрын

    no, but I will take you to the hospital for that stroke

  • @tls559

    @tls559

    7 ай бұрын

    r/ihadastroke

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