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rektide on May 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter wit...

And what's the next lowest astronomical category? "Moonlet?" (just made that up AFAIK)

ceejayoz on May 16, 2023 [–]

It’s a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlet

Saturn has thousands of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn

rektide on May 17, 2023 | [–]

I probably heard it already; very likely my mistake. Thanks for the links!

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