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Well the moon has had artificial satellites in the past. I imagine it might not be terribly common, but not impossible either. >The almost nonexistent cases (a
by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well the moon has had artificial satellites in the past. I imagine it might not be terribly common, but not impossible either.
>The almost nonexistent cases (at least in our Solar System) shows how rare it is.
It might not exist in our solar system, our solar system isn't a model from which all others operate from. Submoons may be rare, but not because they don't exist in our solar system.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Submoons may be rare, but not because they don't exist in our solar system Sure, "submoons are rare because they're rare in our solar system" isn't a proof. (It's a hypothesis.) But the observation is evidence. In the absence of other evidence, it defines the status quo.
- jobigoud 8y ago> Well the moon has had artificial satellites in the past. I imagine it might not be terribly common, but not impossible either. There are still artificial satellites around the Moon but the problem as stated in the paper is "long-lived" submoons, on stable orbits, which the Moon can't have.