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Moons?

ajtribick opened this issue · comments

It might be useful to have a <moon> element available.

Makes sense, given that chances of having an exomoon confirmed sometime soon are pretty good.
Should any parameters differ from the <planet> element, you think?

@hannorein Would this be something you and others could find useful?

Let's find a moon first... 😉

Would it need to be confirmed or just a plausible candidate?

I don't know. The way I see it, even having one or two good candidates doesn't really justify putting the work in to add them here. A catalogue of exomoons only makes sense when there are so many object that one can't keep track of them individually.

That’s a good point :)

Was support for moons ever added? Currently, the exomoon candidate Kepler-1708 b-i is included in the database as a planet orbiting the star Kepler-1708, instead of a moon orbiting the planet Kepler-1708 b. This should be corrected, or the exomoon candidate should be removed.