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Posted by David Williams on June 18, 2006, 9:33 pm
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-> Comparing the cummulative mass of satellites to the mass of their
-> central gas giants produces a constant ratio of 0.0001 which is a
-> hundred times smaller than Moon to Earth ratio of 0.012:
-> http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20099
-> This discepancy in ratios becomes smaller when viewed from
-> planet-evaporation-model standpoint, where terrestrial planets
-> lost their hydrogen-helium atmospheres to UV stripping:
-> http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/08/text/
-> Reconstituting the lost H-He mass (98%) to original Earth
-> makes the Moon/Earth ratio 0.00025, which is more amenable to
-> reconciliation. John Curtis
Is there any reason to expect the mass ratio of earth-moon system,
which was produced by a major collision between two planets, to be the
same as those of the gas giants and their satellites, which were
produced by altogether different processes?
dow
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