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Venus Might Have Once Had a Moon. But the Hellish Planet Could Have Destroyed It
The model says a moon could have been pulled inward as Venus slowed, then shattered at the Roche limit and left a brief ring.
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Lost companion: If the young Venus formed a moon after a big impact, it could have been lost again by its own tidal forces. Model calculations show that large moons or a initially only moderately fast rotating Venus could lose their companion after 30 million to 1.7 billion years. Other starting points would have a Earth moon-sized satellite on the other hand until today [...] The contribution Venus could have had for almost 2 billion years from…
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