Talk:List of planet–satellite systems

Surface area
What is the point of having the surface area of these systems (minus the gaseous planets) listed on here. It is an interesting fact though that the earth-moon system has the most area out of all the systems.--Sethhater123 04:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Sethhater123
 * And even if you take Earth alone it will have the most area.--Planemo 10:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

moonlets
Should these small (40 meter to 500 meter) bodies be included in the count of moons? the main article for Saturn lists it as having 60 confirmed moons as well as mentioning separately that it has ~150 moonlets which I don't believe is an official classification. Should we have this article stating this number (200) when most people will only consider moons to be the larger bodies moons? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.179.113 (talk) 03:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * They're satellites. No one said anything about moons. "Moon" is undefined by the IAU, but a lot of people think Jupiter has four moons, because 1-km chunks of ice don't count. And since every particle in Saturn's rings is a satellite, we of course need to specify the number of known satellites. kwami (talk) 05:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Then shouldn't we have all the other articles (Solar System, Natural satellite) to reflect these numbers/totals so as to avoid confusion?Sethhater123 (talk) 02:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)Sethhater


 * Sure, if you like. But if you're going to count moons, you need to define what that means for the purposes of this article, and justify which count you choose. kwami (talk) 06:58, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

merged
Merged into natural satellite. This list just duplicates the nav box, and included several systems which were not planetary. If we're going to include minor planets, as we were, we'd need to expand the list a hundred. — kwami (talk) 23:20, 21 August 2012 (UTC)