Habitability of Exomoons at the Hill or Tidal Locking Radius Moons orbiting extrasolar planets are the next class of object to be observed and characterized for possible habitability. Like the host-planets to their host-star, exomoons have a limiting radius at which they may be gravitationally bound, or the Hill radius. astrobiology/2013/07/habitability-of-exomoons-at-the-hill-or-tidal-locking-radius.html#more
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