Is the moon a planet?
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no, it is a natural satellite.
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No. The Earth's moon is terrestrial, meaning it has a rocky surface.
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I cannot think of an example. Pluto, even if not considered a planet, is not a moon, but a Kuiper belt object. So the fact that Charon is a moon of Pluto is not sufficient. However, it's possible that we find such a rare phenomenon, since it's not against the physical laws.
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Its a planet!!  On a serious note try this link\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\n:) Hope this helps........
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yes it is, and delicious too. With holes and rats at their holes. Yum YUm....\nNo i was just kidding. What you see in animations and cartoons are not all true, they are just make beliefs. \nThe moon is a solid rock just like the earth.  It formed as the same age of the earth. And you'll learm a lot more of the moon when you go to school. So study very hard and you'll know more and much interesting things, not just the moon but a lot more.
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well all the planets have moons exept mercury and venus  There are 240 known moons within the Solar system, including 162 orbiting the planets here is a link  u can find more info and the names on the moons\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite
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Tons!\n\nA moon is simply a large object that orbits a planet.\n\nThere are a total of 137 moons in our solar system. Here's the list of names and associated planets (see sources):
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A planet is a mass that orbits a central star, is massive enough to 'press' itself into a spherical shape but is not massive enough for nuclear fusion to take place.  In simpler terms, a planet is a large, usually rocky, rock that rotates around a star, like the sun.  Sometimes planets can be giant balls of gas (like Jupiter), but they still rotate none the less.
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The small size and weird, distant orbit makes it feel more or less like a stray double-moon. I'm not sure why it's considered a planet really - maybe it's the smaller body that rotates it, Charon, that makes us class it as a planet, maybe it's because we looked for a reason for the deviations in the planets orbits and prematurely labeled it planet. As for me, I do - mostly because Pluto is always mentioned as a planet.
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The Earth is a relatively poor planet so we can only AFFORD one moon. Some larger planets with a thriving interstellar economy can afford several large moons and a few spares. There is a planet in the Goografron galaxy that is so rich everyone has their own moon.  The space around the planet became so crowded that it blocked out their two suns, now their economy is collapsing.  Be thankful we just have one.
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There's the Man *in* the Moon, but not the Moon *in* the Earth.  So far, there is only one moon orbiting the Earth and its name is ... "Moon".
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The moon is known as the moon, but there are also other names given to it such as: Luna by the Romans and Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. It is also known as one of Earth's satellite. It is the second largest object in the sky and orbit 384,400km from the Earth. Its diametre is 3,476km and it has a mass of 7.35kg. As far as I know there are no other name for the earth's moon persay.
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if it is extemely bright, then it is most likely the planet Jupiter. The moon moves a lot each day, so you need to say exactly what day and time you saw it.
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The definition of a planet is rather ambiguous.  Broadly, it is a body of matter orbiting a star which is not large enough to produce nuclear fusion (that would make it a star).  Additionally, planets must be significantly larger than any objects in a similar orbit.\nThis obviously excludes asteroids, however it is a contested definition since it also excludes Kuiper Belt objects, including Pluto and Ceres.\nAnother clause suggested is that the body must be large enough that its gravity causes it to form a roughly spherical shape, which most asteroids do not.\nThere are other suggested definitions, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet
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There is debate over whether Pluto should even be classified as a planet.  It seems out of place with the gas giants of the outer solar system beyond the rock belt.  Also, other similar bodies are being found beyond Pluto that are not being made "planets".  Finally, Pluto has a satellite, or "moon", Charon, which is actually almost as big as Pluto istelf, and orbits very, very close to Pluto.  From Earth, they barely resolve (depending on the quality of the instrument) and appear joined at the hip as it were.  Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun.  Since it was discovered in 1930, man has not even observed one of its completed orbits around the sun.  Pluto follows an extremely exaggerated elliptical orbit, which actually crosses paths with the orbit of Neptune.  Thus, sometimes Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun, other times it is Pluto.\n\nUranus rotates about its own axis which is "sideways" (a relative term), at 98 degrees tilt.\n\nNeptune has a Great Dark Spot, which is a storm similar to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due
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For many years, we knew of 16 moons for the largest planet in our solar system. In the last few years, about two dozen new moons have been announced by astronomers. However, being announced does not mean that these become "official" moons of the planet. To be recognized by the scientific community as a new moon involves a process which may take several years - and some announced objects never get recognized at all!