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To: Red Badger

“If you were stationed on Thalassa, you’d see Naiad passing above and below in a pattern that would repeat itself every four loops, as Naiad repeatedly laps its neighbour.”

It’s almost like one moon orbits the other. A moon’s moon.


2 posted on 07/10/2020 12:21:49 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: rightwingcrazy

https://www.livescience.com/63819-moonmoons-could-exist.html


4 posted on 07/10/2020 12:26:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: rightwingcrazy

According to the picture, it appears that Naiad always has a slightly shorter radius orbit than Thalassa so they never collide. Just coincidence? Doubting that.


15 posted on 07/10/2020 3:13:07 PM PDT by oldtech
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