Re: Kalieda climate

Am 06.02.02, Andreas Johansson yscrifef:

> >There's only three or four big enough to be of much
> >interest to nonastronomers anyway.
>
> How did you arrive at that figure?
Cos "most people" have only heard of a handful of them? [Also
please note, before further confusion ensues, that "three or
four" is not to be taken literally. Sheesh. It means "several".]

Considering that Juppiter has, what, 15 or 16 satellites and a
quarter or third of them are big enough to be known by
_non_astronomers; I'd say the figure is fairly accurate. Most
people (who have been exposed to some basic astronomy!) can name
Callisto, Io, Ganymede, etc. The other ten or twelve? Who knows!

> On one hand, I can't see how any moon bar
> the Earth's Moon would be interesting except from an astronomical POV (for
> the time being, at least), whereas one the other hand, there are seven
> planet-sized ones: the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and
> Triton. All are bigger or much bigger than Pluto, and Ganymede, Callisto and
> Titan have larger diametres than Mercury, altho' Mercury's mass is larger
> than any one of them's.
Thouse would be the ones. (Thanks for naming them all.) All the
others belong fairly squarely to the astronomers.

Padraic.
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