• CosmoNova@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    The actual term is satellites. Blame media and maybe engineers. People constructed so many manmade ones that natural satellites got the moons rebranding.

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      11 months ago

      How is this getting upvotes? That’s like saying your cow’s name is actually “mammal”. The post was not about a general term to label a group of things.

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      11 months ago

      Can’t vouch for other languages, but at least in Russian, satellite (sputnik) is still in use alongside “moon”