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How can a planet have more than 1 moon?
If the gravitational pull is strong enough it can keep those moons orbiting around it using inertia.
What planet has the most moons orbiting around it?
Jupiter has the most moons orbiting around it, with a total of 79 known moons as of 2021.
What type of planet is it rocky or a gas giant what is composition what does the moon look like?
The Moon is not a planet, but its composition is made out of lunar rock. in kid terms, it is a rocky planet. The moon also is slightly oval shaped, I suggest that you look on Google.com at images for the Moon.
Is Pluto a moon or a planet?
no it's a dwarf planet I would think that it is a dwarf planet, but its moon, Sharon, is nearly as big as it, so some MAY argue that Sharon is a dwarf planet and Pluto is the moon, but considering Pluto is slightly bigger than Sharon, I would think that Sharon would orbit Pluto rather than Pluto orbiting Sharon.
What planet is the only inner planet with more than one moon?
Mars is the only inner planet in our solar system with more than one moon. It has two small moons called Phobos and Deimos.
How can a planet have more than 1 moon?
If the gravitational pull is strong enough it can keep those moons orbiting around it using inertia.
What is a moon a star or not?
The moon is not a star. The moon is a solid, cold object orbiting a planet, and if it were orbiting alone it is large enough to be considered a planet by itself. A star is a massive ball of gas heated by internal fusion reactions, and weighs millions of times more than the moon.
What planet has the most moons orbiting around it?
Jupiter has the most moons orbiting around it, with a total of 79 known moons as of 2021.
An object that revoles around another object?
The one doing the revolving is the "orbiting object". It doesn't usually get more specific than that, unless one is referring to a moon or man-made object in orbit around a planet. Those are called satellites. Other orbiting objects include the planets of a solar system around their sun, and the electrons of an atom around its nucleus.
How does the mass of a planet affect the speed of a moon that orbits it?
The mass of a planet affects the speed of a moon that orbits it through gravity. The greater the mass of a planet, the stronger the gravitational force it exerts on its moon, causing the moon to orbit at a faster speed to counteract this force. Therefore, a more massive planet typically results in a faster orbiting speed for its moon.
Why do astronomers sometimes consider Pluto and its moon Charon to a double planet?
Charon (1,206 km diameter) is more than half the size of Pluto (diameter 2,274 km). When two objects orbit, like a planet and its moon, they orbit around the shared center of mass, called the barycenter. In most cases, the planet is so much heavier than its moon that the shared center is actually inside the planet, so it's correct to say the moon is orbiting around the planet. In the case of Pluto and Charon, the barycenter is in between the two bodies. This is the reason for calling it a double planet, because neither one really goes around the other, they circle that common center.
What takes longer to orbit the Sun the Moon or the Earth?
Technically, the moon isn't orbiting the sun. The moon is orbiting the Earth that is orbiting the sun. I guess someone should have paid more attention in elementary school!!!
Are length of year and orbital period the same thing?
No, the length of a year refers to the time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around its star, while the orbital period is the time it takes for an object to complete one orbit around another object in space, such as a moon around a planet or a planet around a star. The length of a year is specific to a planet, while orbital period is a more general concept relating to any orbiting object.
What type of planet is it rocky or a gas giant what is composition what does the moon look like?
The Moon is not a planet, but its composition is made out of lunar rock. in kid terms, it is a rocky planet. The moon also is slightly oval shaped, I suggest that you look on Google.com at images for the Moon.
Is the moon a planet in space?
No. The moon is more of a sattelite than a planet.
Why isn't an asteroid considered a moon?
An asteroid is not considered a moon because a moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet, while an asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits the Sun. Moons are typically larger and have a more regular orbit around a planet, whereas asteroids have more irregular orbits and are not bound to a specific planet.
Why does the moon orbit the earth intead of the earth orbiting the moon?
The mass of the earth is over 80 times the mass of the moon. A massive object will tend to capture less massive objects in its gravitational field.____________But consider this: if the moon happened to be the same general size and mass as earth, which would orbit which? You would observe them each orbiting around an invisible spot half way between them, their 'system' center of gravity otherwise called the 'barycenter'. They would effectively be orbiting around each other. As the moon becomes less massive, what determines the 'cut-off' between orbiting around each other and the smaller orbiting the larger? In fact it is still true that earth and moon are each orbiting their barycenter. Interestingly, the barycenter in this case is within the body of the earth, because the earth is so much more massive than the earth.
