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Old 27-January-2005, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by W.F. Tomba
So what do you call an object in stable orbit around a moon?
I don't believe you can have a stable orbit around a moon, the gravitational attraction of the parent planet would drag on it every time it orbitted nearest to said planet. That field would drag it out of any hope for a stable orbit, unless it somehow, miraculously, stabilized into a figure 8 orbit without tearing itself apart.
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