After the discovery of supersized exomoon candidates, many have been wondering - can moons have moons? And could *those* also have moons?! Today we dive into this fun little question and learn about the limits of satellites.
Written & presented by Prof David Kipping
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::References::
► Kollmeier, J. & Raymond, S. (2019), “Can Moons Have Moons?“, MNRAS, 483, 80:
► Also check out Sean Raymond’s excellent blog article!
::Music::
Music licensed by (SS) [], or via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (), or with permission from the artist
► Brad Hill - There Is but One Good (00:00) []
► Falls - Life in Binary (4:08)
► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Four (8:50)
► Joachim Heinrich - Stjarna (12:05)
► Indive - Trace Correction (14:54)
::Film/TV clips used::
► Sunshine (2007) Fox Searchlight Pictures
► First Man (2017) Universal Pictures
► Another Earth (2011) Fox Searchlight Pictures
► Moonfall (2022) Lionsgate
► Agora (2009) Focus Features International
► Outro clip by Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Berkeley Lab, Miguel Aragon, Mark Subbarao & Alex Szalay
::Chapters::
00:00 Introduction
02:28 How are moons lost?
04:08 Tides
06:22 Moon Hill Spheres
07:19 Analytic Results
09:03 Iapetus
10:12 Giant exomoons
11:46 Moon moon moons
13:55 Final thoughts
14:54 Outro & credits
#MoonMoons #SubMoons #CoolWorlds
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