what if a moon is bigger than its planet?

Question

just kiddin :)

i said im just kidding

Answer 1

well sweetie , we generally declare the planet to be a larger mass than its moon. usually the mmoons are not gas but solid so they cannot outsize their planet.
besides this the gassy moon would get torn by its planet, stripped from the gas layers who would be swallowed by its planet.

the planet -moon couple turns around the couple's centre of gravity. due to the disbalance in their weights, one of the two objects /the heavier/ is much closer to the the centre of gravity and this is called planet. the other object is called moon.

roughly equal massed gas objects - stars form sometimes the binary solar systems, with two stars and not one in the center of such a solar system. the disruptions in the light /energy flow and large diameters of rotation of their satellites /planet/ usually prevent formation of the earth-like enviroments in these solar systems.I hope this helps .good question . -B-

Answer 2

The body with the most mass would become the planet and the object with lesser mass would orbit it (they would orbit around the barycenter). By definition, a planet cannot orbit an object other than the Sun.

This scenario seems unlikely, yet may be possible in the gas realms of a solar system. Gas objects such as Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune are normally very large due to their ice content while forming at such distances from the Sun but they are not exactly alike in their gas makeup.

Uranus (diameter 51,100 km) is larger than Neptune (diameter 49,500 km) yet Uranus (8.6832 x 1025 KG) has less mass than Neptune (1.0243 x 1026 KG).

One could theorize that if Uranus was a moon of Neptune, your question would be true.

Answer 3

Moon = orbits a planet Planet = orbits a famous person for sure it is no longer so elementary as I even have defined yet this is a ordinary rule of thumb. Planets have standards, alongside with mass and chemical makeup, to be categorized as a planet.

Answer 4

There are actually two moons in the solarsystem that are bigger than a planet. No kiddin. Mercury is only 4879 km in diameter while Jupiters moon Ganymedes is 5262 km and Saturns moon Titan 5150 km. And despite being smaller Mercury is over twice as massive as these two moons so if either moon suddenly moved to Mercury they would still be considered moons as they would orbit Mercury. They would begin loosing mass quickly though as their icy composition would make them look more like huge comets than moons.

Answer 5

well we generally declare the planet to be a larger mass than its moon. usually the mmoons are not gas but solid so they cannot outsize their planet.
besides this the gassy moon would get torn by its planet, stripped from the gas layers who would be swallowed by its planet.

the planet -moon couple turns around the couple's centre of gravity. due to the disbalance in their weights, one of the two objects /the heavier/ is much closer to the the centre of gravity and this is called planet. the other object is called moon.

roughly equal massed gas objects - stars form sometimes the binary solar systems, with two stars and not one in the center of such a solar system. the disruptions in the light /energy flow and large diameters of rotation of their satellites /planet/ usually prevent formation of the earth-like enviroments in these solar systems.

Answer 6

A planet and a moon orbit a single center of gravity.
It is generally considered that the point of orbit is closest to the planet.

Answer 7

This is actually possible. Jupiter is about the largest a planet can become. If a planet had a mass of 10 times Jupiter, for example, it's gravity would crush it to a smaller size, making it smaller but denser and more massive than Jupiter, if Jupiter happened to be its moon. And if Jupiter were 50 times more massive it would be a star, not a planet.

Answer 8

Then the 'moon' will be called as a planet and the 'planet' will be the moon.

Answer 9

If the moon bigger than planet. nothing
Yes. nothing.
But if
the moon mass >> the planet mass

Then

F = G(m.M)/r^2

moon is its planet and planet is its moon

Answer 10

if a moon is bigger then a planet no it will never happen because our moon is small and our planet is very big.