Study shows proportionally large moons around other planets not as rare as thought
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 08:31
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Working with computer simulations to recreate what scientists believe to be the conditions that led to the formation of Earths moon, which up to now has been considered quite large, a team of researchers from Switzerland and the United States, in a paper published on arXiv, have shown the likelihood of other planets having proportionally large moons is much higher than was previously thought.