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Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 7/20/2008


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Are there moons that orbits other moons?

Answer
Hi Jake!
No big deal..
Only a few months from now, Chinese and Indian lunar missions will be orbiting their vehicles in lunar orbit.

Elsewhere in the solar system, NASA vehicles are orbiting satellites of the gas giants!

In this wide universe, with 100 billion stars per galaxy, and literally trillons of galaxies, there WILL BE cases where a stray asteroid is captured by a moon which will then fit YOUR description!

Rest assured!!

hope that suffices.
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Jayen

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Jayendra Upadhye

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1 - General questions on most astronomy topics such as:- Solar system, Cosmology, Black holes, Quasars, Dark matter etc. 2 - General questions about the geologies of planets. 3 - General questions about Orbits and laws governing them. 4 - General questions about rockets / spaceships 5 - General questions about stellar interiors and supernovas.

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I was an askme.com expert rated no#1 for quite some time - and was top ten there by the time it closed - in Astronomy and general science categories.

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Bachelor of Engg. (Electrical engg), Maharaja Sayajirao university of Baroda, Gujarat, India.

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