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- From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
- Subject: Re: The Moon's Orbit (Re: Solar Eclipse Question)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:23:51 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 the
- >Moon's mass, expressed as a fraction of the parent planet's mass, is by far the
- >largest in the solar system, which makes the Earth-Moon pair unique
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- Except for Pluto/Charon, of course.
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- -Mike
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