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ploonets

ploonets is the plural of ploonet.

Meaning of ploonet

Noun

ploonet (plural ploonets)

  1. (neologism) A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet.
    • This paper explores the scenario where large regular exomoons escape after tidal interchange of angular momentum with its parent planet, becoming small planets by themselves. We name this hypothetical type of object a ploonet.2019, Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone, “Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons”, in Monthly...

Questions about ploonets

What is ploonets the plural of?
Ploonets is the plural of ploonet.

Words near ploonets in the dictionary

  1. Plonskis
  2. Ploof
  3. Ploofs
  4. plooky
  5. ploonet
  6. ploonets
  7. ploong
  8. ploop
  9. ploops
  10. ploot
  11. ploots

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