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Old 04-July-2009, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnBStone View Post
Does it work better if one of the Earth mass planets is a moon of a Gas Giant to begin with and the other is the eccentric one with a large moon?
That's interesting you should mention this, as the dynamics of an Earth-sized planet with a Moon-sized Moon interacting with, say, a Jovian-sized planet with an Earth-sized moon could very well wind up with the Earth-sized planet forfeiting it's own moon and walking away with Jovian's moon.
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