Scientists focused on Jupiter's little moons Amalthea and Thebe. Their peculiar orbits didn't quite fit with Jupiter's ...

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Our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon, has been Earth’s companion for billions of years. It influences our tides, stabilizes our planet’s rotation, and has inspired countless myths, scientific ...

There's also the high angular momentum of the Earth-Moon system, the lower density of the Moon, the lack of lighter elements, and the fact that the molten past of the Moon can’t be explained ...

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but for the solar system, that's huge. No other moon is that large relative to its parent planet. The oddities don't stop there. The total angular momentum of Earth's spin, the moon's spin and the ...

have its orbit slightly altered by a very close approach with the Earth-Moon system, and then recede away from us on the ‘outside’ in an overall horseshoe trajectory — hardly caters to fun ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system ... to distribute the impact momentum, leading to a 'kiss ...

Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system ... distribute the impact momentum, leading to ...

Nodal precession means that particles in orbit around the Earth-Moon system slowly ‘precess’ (a slow, continuous change in a body’s orbital parameters) around the angular moment vector.