60 moons for Saturn

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I am kind of curious what everybody thinks of the current definition of a 'moon'. They just discovered a new moon for Saturn bringing the total to 60. I think this is ridiculous. They need to make a distinction between moons and captured asteroid/kuiper belt objects. Otherwise we are going to keep discovering moons until we start finding softball sized moons and things start getting really silly.<br /><br />Should moons have to be round to be considered a moon? That is the definition I think we should use. Then again that is the definition for a planet I thought we should use but the powers that be went with a different one.
 
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