Re: Ok, so who's planet or satillite?

On 2005-09-28 23:56:39 -0400, "G" <geez@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

Me and a friend we're arguing over. What is a planet and what is a satellite...
He said to me earth is a satellite. I said no earth is a planet, the moon is satellite.
He states the earth is a satellite of the sun. I said no earth is a planet in the sun's solar system...
Any way this argument can go on and on...
So where is the line drawn for this?...
Planet / satellite which ever?..


The Earth is a satellite of the Sun just like the moon is a satellite of Earth. *We* classify the Earth as a planet. Typically smaller things orbit larger things, kind of like "Mini me" orbiting "Fat ***" for instance....

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