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- From: max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: The Moon's Orbit (Re: Solar Eclipse Question)
- Message-ID: <y2i3XB2w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:47:33 GMT
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- tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Thompson) writes:
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- > nailed to Jupiter's equatorial plane (likewise Saturn, etc.). Remember that t
- > Moon's mass, expressed as a fraction of the parent planet's mass, is by far t
- > largest in the solar system, which makes the Earth-Moon pair unique. The Moon
- > simply too massive to have been forced into the plane of the Earth's equator
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- Eh? The Pluto-Charon ratio is bigger, ain't it -- and by quite a bit?
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