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A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon

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A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon

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Space@mander.xyz · 2 days ago

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else entirely.

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We could call objects orbiting moons, moonies!
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  We could name an award after it!
  
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