Temuan baru astronom: banyak bulan di luar Tata Surya, di mana ...
Planet ini mengelilingi bintang induk kuning setiap 287 hari pada jarak yang sama dengan Bumi mengorbit matahari. Karenanya, planet dan bulan ...
diambil dari sabuk Kuiper
Bahkan bulan terbesar Saturnus, Titan, memiliki radius kurang dari 5% dari planet induknya, dan meski benar bahwa bumi dan bulan memiliki rasio ukuran sekitar empat banding satu, keduanya adalah tubuh berbatu. Sistem Bumi-Bulan terbentuk sebagai hasil dari tumbukan raksasa di awal pembentukan tata surya. Bulan-bulan Jupiter dan Saturnus di sisi lain bersatu dari puing-puing yang tertinggal setelah planet terbentuk. Bulan lain, seperti bulan Triton, Neptunus terbesar, mungkin <anchor>diambil dari sabuk Kuiper</anchor>. Teori-teori yang ada saat ini tidak dapat menjelaskan bagaimana bulan serukuran Neptunus bisa terbentuk di orbit di sekitar planet seukuran Jupiter.
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# Neptune Might Have Captured Triton

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An artist's conception of Triton and its binary companion as they approach Neptune. This encounter facilitated Triton’s capture to an inclined retrograde orbit around Neptune, an event that catastrophically altered the Neptune satellite system.(Image credit: Craig Agnor)

Neptune's largest moon, Triton, was originally a member of a duo orbiting the Sun but was kidnapped during a close encounter with Neptune, a new model suggests.

Triton is unique among large moons in that it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation, which long ago led scientists to speculate that the moon originally orbited the Sun. But until now, no convincing theory for how Triton paired with Neptune existed.

Gravity might have pulled Triton away from its companion to make it an orbiting satellite of Neptune, researchers report in a new study published in the May 11 issue of journal _Nature_.

"We've found a likely solution to the long-standing problem of how Triton arrived in its peculiar orbit," said Craig Agnor, a researcher from the University of California, Santa Cruz. "In addition, this mechanism introduces a new pathway for the capture of satellites by planets that may be relevant to other objects in the solar system."

The new model predicts that Triton came from a binary setup much like Pluto and its moon, Charon.

"It's not so much that Charon orbits Pluto, but rather both move around their mutual center of mass, which lies between the two objects," Agnor said.

Binary systems can be pulled apart by gravitation when they encounter large planets like Neptune. The orbital motion of the binary system causes one member to move slower than the other, which can disrupt the system and permanently change the orbital companion.

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This mechanism, known as an exchange reaction, could have delivered Triton to any of a variety of different orbits around Neptune, Agnor said.

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