Comments on: Dwarf planet Makemake has a moon https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/ Updates on your cosmos and world Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 By: Syed Sharaf https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-841352 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:01:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-841352 In reply to Y.Whateley.

Please let me know that
Is Pluto got back in our solar system?
If no, then what were the controversies going on media?

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By: sfriedemann https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828283 Mon, 02 May 2016 01:20:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828283 In reply to Syed Sharaf.

Pluto has 2 moons and it got demoted. Makemake is smaller than Pluto.

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By: Terence Perring https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828069 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:09:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828069 In reply to GreenCentury.

Thanks! I love this site

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By: dc https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828062 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:58:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828062 In reply to jimcolyer.

i agree

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By: GreenCentury https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828056 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:17:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828056 In reply to Terence Perring.

While the actual answer for today might not be known, it seems to me the most stable orbit around the moon would be circumpolar. In other words it would maintain the same distance from the earth during its entire orbit of the moon. This would probably be very difficult to get started as objects with an orientation that could enter moons orbit like this are usually traveling way to fast! Any other orbit means the object would be entering and exiting the earth’s gravitational pull quite often which would wreak havoc with its ability to stay some particular distance from the moon. Interesting concept to think about :)

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By: agsb https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828055 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:56:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828055 Pluto’s Moons were discovered first since it was kicked out of the Planet club.

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By: Y.Whateley https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828052 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:12:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828052 In reply to salcensr.

Exactly – life is nothing, if not full of surprises, and even life within the narrow limits of our experience – “life as we know it” – has a tendency to survive and even thrive under amazing circumstances.

Keep looking up!

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By: salcensr https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828051 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:00:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828051 In reply to Y.Whateley.

of course who are we to say that life could not exist in other forms and in other places,but it is the principle, so encouraging, that of the many stars out there most of them have planets and most of those planets have moons which in turn multiply the possibilities.

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By: Y.Whateley https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828049 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:41:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828049 In reply to salcensr.

At first brush, it looks like these little “dwarf moons” would be a difficult case to make for finding life: they’d be so small, they’re unlikely to hold much atmosphere or oceans, and in our solar system at least they are frightfully cold and far from the life-giving Sun! But at second glance, the more we learn about “extremophile” life forms on Earth, the harder it gets to say for sure that “life as we know it”, at least in bacterial form, couldn’t find a way to flourish on the tiny moons of this little planets – to say nothing of “life as we’ve yet to see it”!

The discovery of a moon around even tiny, distant Makemake definitely makes the universe a more interesting place for astronomers, and for anyone searching for life on other worlds!

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By: salcensr https://earthsky.org/space/dwarf-planet-makemake-has-a-moon/#comment-828048 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:34:00 +0000 https://earthsky.org/?p=239431#comment-828048 the case for life in outer space got a little stronger with the discovery of this moon because in addition to the countless of exoplanets out there there sure will be many times more of exomoons.

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