Moons: A Very Short Introduction | David Rothery

David A Rothery, author of Moons: A Very Short Introduction gives his top 10 things you should know about Moons.
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David Rothery is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University. During 1999-2004 he was Director of Teaching and Geosciences Programme Director in the former Department of Earth Sciences. He has also been Leader of the IAVCEI Commission on Remote Sensing, and in 2005 he was appointed to the PPARC Solar System Advisory Panel and the BepiColombo Oversight Committee. He is the lead academic (production) and Educator (presentation) for the Open University/FutureLearn Moons MOOC, and is the author of several books, including Satellites of the Outer Planets - worlds in their own right, and Planets VSI
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[@DynamicGeezer]

I'm really looking forward to doing this course online. I definitely want to learn more about these fascinating moons.

[@sampathkumarish]

Good intro. Has me excited about the subject.

[@philgamlen5386]

Are the techniques for detecting exoplanets (star wobble/transit) able to accommodate/suggest possible exomoons ? Presumably the maths modeling of the observed star 'wobbles' can only work on the basis of a single planetary mass at a given orbit and not discriminate between a single planet or a smaller planet with one/more moons ?

[@Gowland1989]

I thought our moon was called Luna.

[@daveroth1956]

+Gowland1989 That's just 'moon' in Latin, and it's not widely used anyway.

[@1bgrant]

That's the English adjective to describe moon-like things.