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Pluto and Charon are double planets. Change my mind.
Pluto is smaller than Earth’s moon. Should our moon be a planet too?
No, because absolute size is not what makes a moon a moon. Our Moon is a moon because it directly orbits a planet, not a star. Charon is massive enough relative to Pluto that the former does not directly orbit the latter, but instead they both orbit a common barycenter located between them, making them a binary planetary system.