Lazarus
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Registration date : 2008-06-12
 | | Subject: Planet-planet scattering vs. exomoons 10th May 2013, 2:45 am | |
| The effect of planet-planet scattering on the survival of exomoons http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1717Not surprisingly, planet-planet scattering is not very friendly to the survival of exomoons. - Quote :
- Evidently, the PPS between giant planets have violent impacts on their moons. Even if the moons are initially located at the inner stable region of giant planets (f = 0.2), nearly 2/3 systems have lost their moons completely.
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