Moons

Spyder · #11 March 1st, 2001, 09:33 PM

No argument with either of you guys...however, I would like to know what's under that ice on Europa....rock maybe? or, is it just one big ball of ice? If its rock, does that make it an ICE planet/moon or a ROCK planet/moon?

And, as for Charon, it is a planet-sized moon which probably affects Pluto nearly as much as Pluto affects it....kinda like a binary star system...soooo...is it a planet with a moon, or two planets? The question is even more valid if there is question of its orbit...it was mentioned that some think it has its own orbit...<shrug>

The idea I was originally was trying to point out was that moons don't usually have enough mass to hold an atmosphere. That is probably why, in the game, all moons are rock with no atmosphere (that and the sake of simplicity).

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 01 March 2001).]