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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: felipe on October 17, 2017, 04:37:22 PM

Title: why most of moons have a parent planet equator inclnation orbit?
Post by: felipe on October 17, 2017, 04:37:22 PM

like the moon has a orbit with simmilar inclination to the equator of the planet, why doest this hapen?

Title: Re: why most of moons have a parent planet equator inclnation orbit?
Post by: Bla on October 18, 2017, 04:27:31 AM

When a solar system forms it will tend to form a disk because of conservation of angular momentum.
Most things will tend to end up spinning and orbiting in the plane of the disk, but something like a big collision can disturb it.