Talk:Moonlet

Justification?
Can we see references showing that objects like Dactyl are commonly called "moonlets" by scientists? The page for Dactyl calls it a "moon", and in fact there is already a page on asteroid moons. A Google Scholar search on "dactyl moonlet" resulted in 20 hits, while a search on "dactyl moon" resulted in 1,220 hits.

The objects in Saturn's A Ring are in fact called "moonlets" in the scientific literature, but I don't think enough is known about them to support a page by itself. The current mention in Rings of Saturn is sufficient. I would be inclined to delete this page. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 02:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know about the asteroids, but when I found this page thought Saturn's should be added. There isn't much point to it, except for the link from Moons of Saturn, where all the other moons have links. — kwami (talk) 06:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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Size Matters
What would be the maximum size below which an object would be called a moonlet, but above which it would be called a moon?

Would there also be a minimum size below which “micromoonlets” would just become impossibly numerous to count?

CielProfond (talk) 02:49, 7 October 2021 (UTC)