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Old 02-22-2009, 08:52 PM
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Thumbs down Jupiter's "Unborn" Moon

I mentioned this in my blog, I thought I would just make sure it got spidered and allow people to chat should they happen to wander here on the subject.

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I was busy earlier contemplating a few things about the Earth's Moon, when I had a tangent of thought looking at the Moons Libration. For some reason I thought of the giant Red Spot on Jupiter and I came to a sudden realisation, The red spot is the infancy of a new Moon.

I realised that although the spot is in the atmosphere of Jupiter, that if an object was to be in orbit from the earth that it would actually be outside the Geosynchronous orbit range, however due to Jupiter's atmosphere and overall size that the Geosynchronous size would possibly be the same height as the Red Spot.

I realised that Jupiter's Storm isn't just tornado-like but potentially giving birth to a Sphere of matter, which over time and due to temperature/chemical changes in Jupiter's atmosphere will potentially grow in size much like a snowball being rolled across snow on a lawn.

I am still a bit hazy about how it would eventually jettison from it's current height, I guess it would occur when it reaches sufficient mass to climb to a greater orbit.

However to identify if this is the case, it has to be extrapolated how our own moon was formed. I suggest that this planet was in a state similar to Jupiter. Probably suffering an extremely volcanic surface with plumes of sulphurous smoke rising from volcanoes that made up the atmosphere. (Not just clouds but the whole sky would be volcanic ash).

A Tornado effect could potentially then occur pulling all the ash and other materials together to formulate what would eventually become the moon, while the earth continued to cool down.

I already dropped the premise across to someone over at Cavendish and let the Astronomers over at Sciforum's perhaps discuss if this is just another theory. I'm just interested if I've actually spotted something that has physical proof (Both in Jupiter's Red Spot and the Moons "Basalt" composition from volcanic ash), comments, suggestions?
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