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Comment Re:They're telling us this now? (Score 1) 238

by Rhyth on Thursday October 05, 2006 @12:44PM (#16323507) Attached to: Billions of Planets In Milky Way?

I thought they decided that a moon was a body in hydrostatic equilibrium whose barycenter around any planet was within the given planet. I doubt Jupiter and Saturn could ever be considered 'too big', considering the next step up is a body that can maintain hydrogen fusion I believe.

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