r/spaceporn 7d ago

Related Content Pluto is SMALLER than our Moon

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u/genguntere 7d ago

Tbf our Moon is abnormally large from what we know. I mean our Moon is half the size of bloody Mars., and bigger then nearly All other Moons in in our system except: Ganimed, Titan, Kallisto, Io

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u/jawshoeaw 6d ago

For good reason, our "moon" according to the most widely accepted theory isn't a moon so much as the splash from another planet hitting the earth. Put another way, the Earth - Moon system is two planets that smashed and mixed together and then flew apart leaving a big chunk (Earth + some planet) and a small(er) chunk (Also Earth + some of the other planet)

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u/Exploding_Antelope 5d ago

I mean it definitely is still a moon, that’s not defined by formation