Submitted by peterabbit456 t3_z44gpm in space
JimiWanShinobi t1_ixqgclv wrote
Reply to comment by Wooden_Ad_3096 in Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart by peterabbit456
If that's the case then the James Webb telescope is a moon of Earth. You're mistaking the definition of a moon for the definition of a satellite, one of these two terms needs to be eliminated...
Edit: alright fine, I picked a bad example because I wasn't fully aware of where it's located. Surely there's better examples, like the International Space Station, nobody is calling that a moon either, it's still a satellite. If an asteroid flew by and got caught in the exact same position and orbital path it would still be a satellite, it wouldn't suddenly become The Moon 2...
wgp3 t1_ixqh1ql wrote
Pretty sure naturally occurs versus man-made is probably a sufficient line to draw. Not to mention jwst doesn't orbit the earth. It orbits a Lagrange point between the earth and the sun. Which makes it in a heliocentric orbit rather than earth orbit.
Wooden_Ad_3096 t1_ixqi1g1 wrote
A moon is a natural satellite
Abuses-Commas t1_ixqj6by wrote
James Webb isn't in orbit around Earth, it's orbiting the Sun
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