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Moonmoons, Why You Get Sick When Seasons Change, and a Quiz Measuring Forgiveness

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Learn how moons can have their own moons called moonmoons; how to tell whether you’re a forgiving person; and why you get sick when the seasons change.

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.0

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.0

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.0

Today you'll learn how moons can have moons called Moon moons,

0:10.0

how to tell if you're a forgiving person,

0:12.0

and why you get sick when the seasons change

0:14.8

Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.

0:18.0

Have you ever wondered if a moon can have its own moon? Well you've come to the right

0:22.3

place. The short answer is yes it's

0:24.5

technically possible but it's not likely. Either way though a moon's moon might have

0:30.3

the best name ever. Moon moon. Does that mean that a moon's moon's moon is called a

0:35.4

moon moon moon moon moon I sure hope it does we're gonna say moon moon

0:40.3

moon throughout this story but honestly the international astronomical union hasn't picked an Moon Nested moons, Moony Does, and Moon Nets.

0:53.0

Let's be real though, Moon is obviously the best option, so we're going to call it that anyway.

0:58.0

But let's back up and talk about what a Moon Moon actually is.

1:02.0

First, we have to agree on what a moon is. A moon is loosely

1:06.2

defined as a world that orbits another world. But as we've learned from the debate about

1:10.6

Pluto, more on that later this week, by the way. We've seen moons

1:14.4

orbiting lots of different things. Planets, dwarf planets, even asteroids. Well, in a

1:19.8

paper that hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, astrophysicist Juna Kohlmeyer has some ideas about what it might take to be a moon moon.

1:27.0

She says it would have to be less than six miles in diameter,

1:30.0

and the moon it's orbiting would have to have a strong enough gravity so that the moon moon doesn't go flying off into space.

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