Talk:List of solar system objects
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What are the criteria for whether a moon gets listed on this page? natural satellite has a fairly complete list of all the moons in the solar system. While it is clear that there are too many to list on this page, there doesn't seem to be criteria as to what should be listed - size seems to be a fairly obvious criterion (i.e. only list moons >100 km in diameter or something), but that is definitely not being followed now. As well, there are some moons which are arguably more "important" than others, but are smaller (i.e. Mars' moons Deimos and Phobos are smaller that many of Jupiter's lesser moons, but are better known). Anyone have any ideas?
-lommer 04:43, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC) P.S. I think it may ultimately be easier to stick with the ad-hoc system thats in use now...
- The page started out as having moons >1000km (as it says on the line starting with Planets). You just put in Mars' moons, which is the first violation of that criterion. So, in the long-term, we either need to remove Mars' moons or change the criterion. I'll temporarily remove Mars' moons until we settle on the criterion. -- hike395 05:38, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)