Astroboffins, get in here and explain Saturn's odd-shaped balls A trio of physicists reckoned they’ve figured out why some of Saturn’s moons are so oddly shaped, with some looking like giant floating ravioli and others imitating stubby baguettes. Saturn is most well known for its complex ring system and it is estimated that at least 62 moons are hiding amongst the structure so far. NASA’s …
Something a few tens of kilometres across isn't going to have sufficient gravity to reshape itself, unless perhaps it's made of something very loosely held together, like an ammonia snowball. A substance and structure like that will have a low density, though, meaning that the moon's gravity is also going to be particularly low.
The name given to a body in astronomy is dependent on its location and relationship to other objects. For example, the same object could be a meteor, meteoroid, or meteorite, depending on its location.
Our moon, orbiting the sun without its partner Earth, would be a planet, even if it were once part of Earth. An asteroid captured by a planet would be a moon if it met the size requirement. It is thought that many moons in the solar system are captured asteroids or planetoids.
BTW, the question of our moon's formation is still in debate, although the giant collision (someting colliding with Earth) theory is most widely believed correct.
It is pretty obvious that those are spaceships... despite the official babbling about rocks and asteroids and moons... The shape alone should be enough to let anyone with a brain understand it. But nowadays most people are just zombies and don't think with their own brain, they enjoy being enslaved and trusting all the official obvious lies.
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