1) Yes, I've suggested that they ought to be named Prometheus and Rhea respectively.
2) Because Pluto's a dwarf planet -- a tiny little snowball 1/8 the size of our Moon -- and his largest moon, Charon, is half his diameter -- Charon's nearly as influential as Pluto. That was why the astrologer Isabel Hickey was able to deduce that Pluto was a double-planet system before Charon was discovered. Compared to Saturn and Jupiter respectively, Titan and Europa are pipsqueak presences, and the same rule does not apply to them.
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Re: Ceres and Romanticism
Date: 2025-03-03 10:58 pm (UTC)2) Because Pluto's a dwarf planet -- a tiny little snowball 1/8 the size of our Moon -- and his largest moon, Charon, is half his diameter -- Charon's nearly as influential as Pluto. That was why the astrologer Isabel Hickey was able to deduce that Pluto was a double-planet system before Charon was discovered. Compared to Saturn and Jupiter respectively, Titan and Europa are pipsqueak presences, and the same rule does not apply to them.