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To: fwdude

More than enough. Especially since Rosetta’s orbital speed is no faster than a man walks. Plenty of time even for weak gravity to do its thing.


19 posted on 08/08/2014 3:36:41 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker; InterceptPoint; fwdude; kidd; magellan

Thanks LW, as you said, more than enough. Distance is more significant than mass, such that a fairly puny and not very dense object like Pluto, which travels in an orbit well isolated from other bodies, can host a moon that is a giant fraction of its own mass (1/12th) at a distance about 1/12th that of the Earth-Moon distance. And Pluto has some other moons as well.


22 posted on 08/08/2014 5:15:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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