a’la 2010, would any moons that survive then be considered ‘planets’ ?

  • loaExMachina
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    5 months ago

    The largest ring of Jupiter is just about 129 000 km of radius. The nearest Galilean moon to jupiter has a semi-major axis of 421 800 km, so the rings aren’t in any of their orbital neighborhoods.

    Beside, the largest of them, Ganymede, is more massive than Mercury.

    But you’re right that not all the moons would be either planets or dwarf planets, many would be asteroids.