Our Moon Could Become a Planet

anthemaniac writes "Earth's moon is drifting away from us more than an inch every year. In a few billion years, if the system survives, the moon would be reclassified as a planet under the new IAU definition. You gotta wonder if the astronomers who dreamed this definition up had thought of that."

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Gosh. How shocking.

[porkchop_d_clown]

In other words, when the Moon sufficiently escapes the Earth's gravitational pull, it will no longer be our moon.

How.... bizarre. It would be as if we stopped calling babies "babies" simply because they got older or stopped calling lakes "lakes" just because they dried up!