Kepler, Don't Give Up on the Hunt for Exomoons
Monday, February 13, 2017 - 06:31
in Astronomy & Space
LLNL researchers have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible for a planetary collision to form a moon large enough for Kepler to detect. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Megan Bruk Syal and Amy Barr of the Planetary Science Institute conducted a series of around 30 simulations to explore how various factors affect moon creation.