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Letter: Such a cool word deserves to be used

Published 28 August 2019

From Rick McRae, Canberra, Australia

Chelsea Whyte writes of moons ejected from their orbits around exoplanets, called “ploonets”. (13 July, p 15)

She mentions the slow drift in our moon’s orbit and the possibility that this might be its fate. Would this make it a “protoploonet”? That is such a cool word that it deserves to be used.

Issue no. 3245 published 31 August 2019

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