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To: LibWhacker
Well being that they discovered that Jupiter sized/type planets can exists close to their star, there's probably a lot of earth type planets orbiting these Jupiters

You wouldn't need a moon in those cases.

2 posted on 05/28/2011 4:58:27 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

Also true. I know that at least a few of the Jupiter sized planets orbiting sunlike stars have been found with stable orbits in the goldilocks zone.


7 posted on 05/28/2011 5:02:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: qam1
Well being that they discovered that Jupiter sized/type planets can exists close to their star, there's probably a lot of earth type planets orbiting these Jupiters

An earth type planet as the moon of a Jupiter sized planet would proably rotate with one side facing the planet, as our moon does, or Venus. It is possible to have life, but it would not be a greate climate.

20 posted on 05/28/2011 7:02:49 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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