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Captive Moon

  • December 17, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Red-hued Sycorax is the largest of Uranus’s irregular moons, which are celestial bodies with very elliptical orbits that take them far from their parent planets. Whereas “regular” moons form when a planet does, irregular moons are probably pulled into orbit by a planet’s gravity.

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