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Old March 1st, 2001, 06:35 PM

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Default Re: Moons

1) If they were too big, they'd escape the gravitational pull of their planet and either float away or create their own orbit and become planets.

2) The only moons of which I have heard that may be habitable (ie, have some sort of atmosphere) were around huge gas giants (Jupiter).

2) The gravitational pull of small & tiny moons would be prohibitive to maintaining an atmosphere. There does seem to be a descrepancy here as the moons are the same size as the small & tiny planets, however, I imagine that this was done in the interests of expediency.

My two cents worth




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