Dammit, Moon Moon
October 12, 2018 12:05 PM   Subscribe

 
"That's no moon moon" - line cut from Return of the Jedi
posted by Space Coyote at 12:10 PM on October 12, 2018 [9 favorites]


Well duh? What do they think the various orbiters around the Moon have been doing since 1966? There's no material (ha!) difference between a natural moon and an artificial one.

(Though specifically the Earth's Moon is hard to orbit permanently as the mascons beneath its surface have a nasty tendency to warp orbits so that anything occupying them, uh, lithobrakes after a while. But I recall that a Russian did find a niche of highly inclined orbits that would stay stable long-term.)
posted by Quindar Beep at 12:10 PM on October 12, 2018


Moonitos

I'm assuming they're blue cheese flavour.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:20 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


Go home astronomers, you're drunk.
posted by briank at 12:23 PM on October 12, 2018


I will only accept this if it's pronounced as if George St Geelund or Gil Faizon from Oh Hello! are talking about one as it was a guest on Too Much Tuna. "munMoon"
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:29 PM on October 12, 2018


(though, of course, they don’t actually).

I've watched enough QI to know that this answer will change between now and Series T, and someone's eating a klaxon for it.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 12:34 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


My suggestion: Moonáe
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:36 PM on October 12, 2018 [5 favorites]


Mun mun in Kerbal.
posted by kersplunk at 12:51 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS

EXCEPT EUROPA

AND THAT TINY ROCK ORBITING CALLISTO WHERE WE HAVE A TIMESHARE

ALTHOUGH WE'D BE HAPPY TO LET YOU HAVE IT FOR COST NEXT MONTH IT'S GREAT THERE'S A POOL AND EVERYTHING
posted by GuyZero at 12:52 PM on October 12, 2018 [17 favorites]


I have to say I fucking live for MeFi threads about gas giants moons
posted by GuyZero at 12:52 PM on October 12, 2018 [3 favorites]


Someday, the maybe the moonmoons will have moons of their own, and then the earth will be a great-grandplanet.
posted by sfenders at 1:18 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


Someday, the maybe the moonmoons will have moons of their own

Moonmoonmoons?
posted by MrVisible at 1:32 PM on October 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


Moon Moon: The dumb history of the dumbest dog meme - Grant Pardee, Daily Dot.
posted by ZeusHumms at 2:12 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


I don't know if we should trust the IAU to come up with a good name for moons of moons since they totally botched the whole planet thing. "Let's come up with a weird, arbitrary criterion for a planet that fails to account for free planets not in orbit around any star or large planets in orbital resonance just so we don't have too damn many of them."

Good thing the IAU isn't in charge of chemistry. They would've tried to figure out a way to reduce the periodic table of elements back down to four. There would've been a stupid rule like "only stable nuclei count."
posted by tclark at 3:47 PM on October 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


Moonooms
posted by jamjam at 4:08 PM on October 12, 2018


So it's moons all the way down? (Or out/up/around/insert your favorite preposition here)
posted by TedW at 4:19 PM on October 12, 2018


Moomins?
posted by Hermione Granger at 6:49 PM on October 12, 2018


Moon moon? SERIOUSLY?!
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:37 PM on October 12, 2018


[picture of scowlsquinting DiCaprio]

WE HAVE TO MOON MOONER
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 9:33 PM on October 12, 2018


Moon moon? SERIOUSLY?!
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:37 PM on October 12


eponyskeptical
posted by halation at 9:40 PM on October 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


Some sort of cosmic coincidence had me wondering a couple of weeks ago whether large moons could have stable moons of their own, or would the gravity of their planets make the mechanics not work.

I’m still not clear on this.
posted by Warren Terra at 11:06 PM on October 12, 2018


Yes, Luna -- there in the tags! Our moon, Luna, could have a moon.

Some people call their dog the name pronounced: dee-oh-gee, [Doge?] and that gets close to the feeling I have when so, so many people call our moon, Moon. I guess we live on Planet, too. It just hasn't reached critical mass as a name. Though, Water - Ocean - Sea seems more appropriate than Earth, we still at least recognize it with that *name* rather than its category of heavenly body.
posted by filtergik at 3:45 AM on October 13, 2018


For once, can't we just name something "That which must not be named"?
posted by blue_beetle at 7:07 AM on October 13, 2018 [1 favorite]


There was also a reddit thread about this recently, apparently people have moonmoons on the brain (moonmoonbrain, if you will). Moomins may also be involved.
posted by aspersioncast at 8:06 AM on October 13, 2018


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