Asteroids Have Their Own Moons

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news199.html


Radar imagery shows two "moons" orbiting the asteroid Florence.

 

A 100 meter moon. Lol.
Sounds like that asteroid has asteroids.

 

[Insert your mom joke here]

 

I just wanna know how a tiny 100m rock is literally a moon lol. If pluto isn't even a planet, how the hell can an asteroid have moons when they're so small? Just making things up again. Bit of light on the artificial filters, oh touchdown we have moons Houston.

 

One way you could look at it would be that the moon is an orbital satellite of Earth. Many planets in our solar system have moons as well. You can say that Deimos and Phobos, the two moons of Mars, are not actually moons, but asteroids that've become orbital satellites of planet Mars. If you want to get literal about these moons orbiting asteroids, that's fine. Calling these little orbitals "moons" is a bit metaphorical.

 

I was orbiting Florence for awhile. But then she told me she was only into guys.