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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Presumably would actually just reform back into a planet since if you blow up a planet the mass is still there, it has just being fractured. If you leave it a couple of years it'll form back into a planet again.

This is probably what happened with the ice moon of Europa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's also probably what happened to Earth when Theia hit us, and we gained our Moon(s)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not an astronomist, so my understanding of the definition of moon versus asteroids is fuzzy at best. That being said, as I understand it, there are several objects that aren't visible to the naked eye that would qualify as moons, but I may be mistaken. As I understand it we have 1 moon that everyone can see, another 12-16 moon like objects that aren't visible, and several hundred asteroids. All of these objects orbit The Earth, so they count as satellites of The Earth.