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Do we know why the lunar orbits are all generally on one plane? Why don't they go over the poles?
by nashashmi 9y ago
Do we know why the lunar orbits are all generally on one plane? Why don't they go over the poles?
- japaget 9y agoThe Kozai-Lidov effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozai_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozai_mechanism) causes polar and near-polar orbits to be unstable over long time scales.
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