Giant planets might eat their own moons

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3055, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Gas giant planets risk wiping out their own satellites, and its all down to the steps of a gravitational dance. Exomoons--moons around exoplanets--may be the most likely places to find alien life, but dedicated searches have found none so far. That may be because many don't survive, suggest Christopher Spalding of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues