The problem with the Pluto/Charon issue is it creates ISTM an unncessary grey area. Every pair of objects revolve around a barycentre, at least if Messrs Newton and Einstein are correct <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> Again, I see no reason for an unncessary distinction regarding how far from the bodies' centres that barycentre is. It gets you into another irresolvable "definitions" argument.<br /><br />Firstly, if the barycentre has to be inside the primary, there will be annoying borderline cases where it's right on the surface and indeed, due to exentricities and axial tilts, cases where it dives in and out of the primary body at different points during the orbit. In all cases, there will be one body larger than the other (even by 1 gram!). That's the primary, the other one is the secondary. Simple, straightforward, works for me...<br /><br />In the case of Charon, it's *far* smaller (about 11%? Can't be bothered to look it up) and is clearly the moon. You could make a special category if you like for bodies where the ratio is below, say 10:1 but there's no need for a rigorous definition since it'd only be commonly used by dynamicists studying the dynamics of systems with two similarly sized bodies, and they'd probably set their abitrary ratio as appropriate anyway.<br /><br />I think the problem here is people want everything to be in its own singular category, when really things might be in several categories depending on your point of view. If you're studying large comets, you may want to count some Plutinos as comets, whereas if you're studying planets you may want to consider them to be planets. It really doesn't matter, on those terms.<br /><br />I'm simply arguing that in terms of rational categorisation, it makes most sense to call all the big round things planets then use whatever categories- Plutions, Neptwotinos, Icedwarfinos- best suit the moment.<br /><br />I certainly don't see any point fretting about what a moon is. There's an argument that Earth/Moon i