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    A circumplanetary disk (or circumplanetary disc, short CPD) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accumulation of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals...
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    a moon-forming circumplanetary disk. The disk was detected around PDS 70 c, with a potential disk observed around PDS 70 b. The disk was confirmed by...
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  • resonance effects of an external moon(s). Shepherd moon Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Accretion disk Lists of astronomical objects NASA (12 March 2019)...
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    the disk. Excretion disks are formed when stars merge. Accretion Astrophysical jet Blandford–Znajek process Circumstellar disc Circumplanetary disk Dynamo...
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    smaller, circumplanetary analogs of the protoplanetary disks. The formation of planets and moons in geometrically thin, gas- and dust-rich disks is the...
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    planet formation observationally. The flux from HD 100546 b and its circumplanetary disk (CPD) are superimposed, leaving its properties such the radius and...
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    circumstellar discs, precession of protostellar jets, and inclined orbits of circumplanetary objects (as seen in the eclipsing binary TY CrA). For discs orbiting...
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    (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial satellites...
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  • Thumbnail for Lists of planets
    out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the...
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    aligned with the giant planet's equator because these formed in circumplanetary disks. Planets close to their stars on circular orbits will tend to despin...
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    in the literature on roundness are italicized in the table below. Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Co-orbital moon – Configuration...
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    S.; Fernández, J. A.; Gallardo, T.; Brunini, A. (2008). "The Scattered Disk: Origins, Dynamics, and End States". The Solar System Beyond Neptune (PDF)...
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    aligned with the giant planet's equator, because these formed in circumplanetary disks. Strictly speaking, this applies only to regular satellites. Captured...
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    Wars, the moon Ajan Kloss has two moons of its own. Binary asteroid Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Minor-planet moon Moons...
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    1 AU. Accretion disk Asteroid belt Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Exoasteroid belt Protoplanetary disk Wang, Z.; Chakrabarty...
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  • Astronomers report, for the first time, detection of a moon-forming circumplanetary disk around a distant planet, particularly PDS 70c. Carnegie Mellon University...
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    nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. Planets grow in this disk by the gradual accumulation of material driven by gravity,...
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    planet. They considered two models to explain the SED: (1) a large circumplanetary disk around a massive, but unseen, planet and (2) the aftermath of a collision...
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    ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS): A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate in Molecular-line Emission in the AS 209 Disk". The Astrophysical Journal Letters....
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    Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object EXCEDE...
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  • Thumbnail for Classical planet
    Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object EXCEDE...
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  • Thumbnail for Accretion (astrophysics)
    spectroscopy to measure the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Exoasteroid – Asteroids...
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  • Thumbnail for Historical models of the Solar System
    ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6. Joshua Rapp Learn (May 11, 2021). "The Nebra Sky Disk: Is the world's oldest star map really a map at all?". Astronomy Today. Retrieved...
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    that others do not. Moon – Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") Circumplanetary disk Geologic time scale Geology of the Moon History of Earth Lunar geologic...
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    believed to have formed from a circumplanetary disk, a ring of accreting gas and solid debris analogous to a protoplanetary disk. They may be the remnants...
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    Disrupted planet (category Circumstellar disks)
    eventually surround the parent star in the form of a circumstellar disk or debris disk. As a consequence, the orbiting debris field may be an "uneven ring...
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  • Thumbnail for Galilean moons
    believed to have formed from a circumplanetary disk, a ring of accreting gas and solid debris analogous to a protoplanetary disk. They may be the remnants...
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    self-gravitating, spherically symmetric polytropic fluid Synestia Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Second Borel–Cantelli Lemma...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Solar System astronomy
    Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object EXCEDE...
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    Menard, Francois; Pinilla, Paola; Zurlo, Alice (1 July 2021). "A Circumplanetary Disk around PDS70c". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 916 (1): L2. arXiv:2108...
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