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Saturn cheated by breaking regular moons up into many irregularly shaped moons with wonky orbits.
The truth is that there isn't a strict definition of a moon like there is now for planets. The IAU has chickened out.
https://www.livescience.com/what-is-a-moon.html
Pluto is a planet and you will never convince me otherwise.
Okay!
But that means you have to recite all the planets:
Our moon could bully Pluto.
Edit:
Then it's a 10th planet. Ceres deserves its own spot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7VhE5koJQ