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"Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable"
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Subject: "Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable"
2nd February 2022, 7:08 pm
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/moon-formations-habitable-exoplanets-509402/
Computer simulations hinting at a 6Mearth upper limit for fractionally large moons formed by impacts on rocky planets, and 1Mearth for icy planets due to higher energy impacts causing fully vaporized post-impact disks.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28063-8
link to paper on Nature.
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