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Can anything in an orbit be a moon?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No, because moons are masses of bits of planets or meteorites, so the law of physics tells us that the light or heaviness of the gravitaional pull is too massive to get a moon in an orbit.

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