Re:Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
by saagarjha on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:17AM
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Are most of these moons from when the solar system formed?
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Maybe not, but the angular momentum is. Without a big input of energy and momentum to cause a plane change, anything that forms in the solar system will orbit roughly in the plane of the ecliptic, and will spin on an axis normal to it.