Research suggests the Moon is a planet

Science Iulia Postelnicu
https://stocknewsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fullmoon.jpg

A team of researchers from NASA, that is led by Alan Stern, released an article about the moon and the possibility of it being a planet.

Stern is one of the scientists that want to make Pluto a planet again and even plans on opening this subject again.

Recently, some publications made headlines with theories about the moon.

Stern’s paper explains the characteristics of a body that make it a planet. He mentions Pluto as well, as he is still angry about it not having the ‘planet’ status anymore.

Thinking about the moon as a planet is definitely weird, as we always knew it as being a natural satellite. But, at the beginning of times, astronomers believed that the moon is, indeed, a planet.

The ancient astronomers thought it was something with it as it was moving, unlike other stars. They also found interesting the way they could see some of its features really clear.

Philosophers would ask themselves in their works why the moon does show us just only one of its sides.

Aristotle, for example, thought that the moon was not able to rotate. He also thought this about the planets.

Centuries later, there were also theories about the moon being a planet.

However, these theories are not right, as they also had a different perception of how the universe really works. At that time, they believed the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun was the one revolving around it.

Stern and his new paper argue about this subject. He thinks that people should listen to planetary scientists when it comes to this, as they are the ones that studied more in depth.