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Planets and their moons
Below, in parentheses, the
diameters of our solar system’s planets and their moons are shown in
kilometers. Each moon’s diameter is also represented as a percentage of the
diameter of the planet it is orbiting.
Mars (6,794) has 2 (tiny)
moons:
o
Phobos (22 / 0.3%)
o
Deimos (13 / 0.2%)
Jupiter (142,984) has,
next to 63 smaller moons, 4 larger moons:
o
Ganymede (5,262 / 3.7%)
o
Callisto (4,821 / 3.4%)
o
Io (3,660 / 2.6%)
o
Europa (3,122 / 2.2%)
Saturn (120,536) has,
next to at least 54 tiny moons, 1 large moon and 6 smaller moons:
o
Titan (5,151 / 4.2 %)
o
Rhea (1,527 / 1.3%)
o
Iapetus (1,469 / 1.2%)
o
Dione (1,123 / 0.9%)
o
Tethys (1,062 / 0.9%)
o
Enceladus (504 / 0.4%)
o
Mimas (396 / 0.3%)
Uranus (51,118) has,
next to 22 smaller moons, 5 larger moons:
o
Titania (1,577 / 3.1%)
o
Oberon (1,523 / 3.0%)
o
Umbriel (1,169 / 2.3%)
o
Ariel (1,158 / 2.3%)
o
Miranda (472 / 0.9%)
o
Triton (2,705 / 5.5%)
o
Proteus (420 / 0.8%)
o
Nereid (340 / 0.7%)
Triton is relatively the
largest moon, with a diameter of about 1/20 of the diameter of the planet it is
orbiting. If Luna would be a natural moon of Terra, then this ratio would not be
27.2% or nearly 1/3, as is the actual ratio. Anyone can therefore conclude that
Luna is not a natural moon of Terra (more on strange lunar facts: link).
Let us assume that Luna used to be a moon of Tiamat,
just like Pluto (2302), its neighbor Eris (2326), and
Ceres (975), orbiting amidst the asteroid belt, as stated above. Around Pluto,
there are currently five orbiting satellites, one of which (named Charon), has a diameter more then half of the one of Pluto.
Most likely, also Charon used to be a moon of Tiamat (called Phaeton
in Ancient Greece). The same is probably also true for the celestial body
(named Dysnomia) orbiting Eris.
Tiamat (191,340) probably used to
have as its moons (next to possibly others):
o
Luna (3,473 / 1.8%),
also known as Kingu
o
Eris (2,326 / 1.2%)
o
Pluto (2,302 / 1.2%)
o
Charon (1,207 / 0.6%)
o
Ceres (974,6 / 0.5%)
o
Dysnomia (450 / 0.2%)
These numbers are not hard.
The estimated diameter of Tiamat is simply the diameter
of Terra multiplied with 15. However, the percentages are now strikingly
normal.
The sun Helios (1,392,684) used to have 10
orbiting planets:
o
Tiamat (191,340 /
13.7%)
o
Jupiter (142,984 /
10.2%)
o
Saturn (120,536 /
8.6%)
o
Uranus (51,118/ 3.7%)
o
o
Terra (12,756 / 0.9%)
o
Venus (12,104 / 0.8%)
o
Mars (6,794 / 0.5%)
o
Mercury (4,880 / 0.4%)
Though Pluto and Eris have orbiting bodies, both Mercury and Venus have
none. Mars might then have two moons, but they are very tiny. Probably Tiamat used to be the first planet (counted from the center
of our solar system) with moons. The current “moons” of Mars are most likely
remains of Tiamat, and even Mercury could have been a
moon of Tiamat.
The facts do not lie.
However, we cannot say the same about NASA, which is also known as the
abbreviation of “Never A Straight Answer”.
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