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08-21-2006, 04:11 AM
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A moon is a natural satellite orbiting a planet. So Pluto is not a moon. Charon has been called Pluto's moon,, but as SergentBig correctly stated, they are so close together and so similar in size that they both orbit a point between the two.
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