Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?

You might be pretty confident that when a moon is there it’s there to stay, but that’s not always the case. Moons may have a history of disappearing.
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Correction:
05:19 Well, this is half right. The moons don't actually orbit the same distance from Mars and orbit on opposite sides of the synchronous radius. Sorry about the mistake!
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  • @scishowspace
    @scishowspace Жыл бұрын

    Thank you to everyone who noticed the mistake in this video! Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos do not orbit on opposite sides of Mars at the same distance! The researchers noted that the moons orbit on opposites sides of "the location where the orbital period about Mars equals the rotation period of Mars," or the synchronous radius. You can read more about this in the paper here: www.lpi.usra.edu/planetary_news/2021/03/08/exploring-the-origin-of-mars-moons/

  • @Narmatonia
    @Narmatonia Жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised you didn't mention Neptune and Triton, a prime example of lost moons. Triton makes up 99% of the mass of all Neptune's moons, suggesting that after it was captured, Neptune's other moons all collided with Neptune or Triton, or were ejected from the system altogether. Also 4:19 insert Captain America "I understood that reference" gif here

  • @ivarbrouwer197

    @ivarbrouwer197

    Жыл бұрын

    not to split hairs that was gaining/catching a moon, not loosing a moon. Though catching Triton would probably have created chaos for Neptunes moons too. (To your credit, the Mars example didn't really seem to apply also)

  • @Narmatonia

    @Narmatonia

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivarbrouwer197 What I meant is that Neptune likely had lots of larger natural moons, like the other giants. Then Triton showed up and scattered them, leaving only the little rocks we see today.

  • @ivarbrouwer197

    @ivarbrouwer197

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Narmatonia probably, but not definately, afterall: where are the big moons of Uranus then? (But i'd love to see some research on that, which as you point out, this segment is sadly missing out on)

  • @Narmatonia

    @Narmatonia

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivarbrouwer197 I wouldn't say Titania and Oberon are unusually small, they may not hold a candle to Titan or the Galilean moons, but both are bigger than Rhea. Plus with Uranus being significantly smaller than Jupiter or Saturn it makes sense it would have relatively smaller moons.

  • @joearnold6881

    @joearnold6881

    Жыл бұрын

    But… what if someone didn’t get your reference to the Captain America meme about getting a reference?

  • @Salt_Master_Queue
    @Salt_Master_Queue Жыл бұрын

    Chrysalis was like, "I wanna be with you, Saturn," and Saturn was like, "Keep your distance, or I'll tear you apart."

  • @nunya___

    @nunya___

    Жыл бұрын

    or... "I'll rip your heart out".

  • @wilsonli5642

    @wilsonli5642

    Жыл бұрын

    Tearing its children apart IS appropriate for Saturn, in this case!

  • @MissionControlTet
    @MissionControlTet Жыл бұрын

    Earth also lost another moon, according to latest NASA simulation After Theia collision, materials ejected into Earth orbit coalesced into 2 objects: larger clump and the smaller one. The larger clump interacted with the smaller one, which exchanged their energy: the bigger one lost orbital energy and falling back into Earth, the smaller one received energy transfered from the larger one and pushing it into higher orbit which secured its position. The smaller clump became Luna

  • @AragasiOlama-dk3km

    @AragasiOlama-dk3km

    3 ай бұрын

    There were another moon After the theia collision the second moon was 3 times smaller than The Moon and it was much further from earth. The Smaller Second Moon Collided with The Moon in the Lunar South pole and Splattered it self in the surface of The Moon as a extra layer of crust the collision was cause by The Moon drifting away from the earth

  • @davidroddini1512
    @davidroddini1512 Жыл бұрын

    6:26 “Maybe try inside the fridge” No keys but who the heck left a moon in here?!

  • @michaelmicek

    @michaelmicek

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe it was planning to go someplace else and got lost.

  • @QuarterLifeCrises
    @QuarterLifeCrises Жыл бұрын

    I think the planet would feel like its kid is missing rather than its keys, wanting to put up missing posters all over the solar system.

  • @General12th

    @General12th

    Жыл бұрын

    Naw, you know all planets secretly go _"nomnomnom"_ and enjoy their secret snacks.

  • @technowolf1544
    @technowolf1544 Жыл бұрын

    Phobos and Deimos were placed that way by demons to tempt humans into testing our teleport technology on them

  • @SaiyanHeretic

    @SaiyanHeretic

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you want to open a portal to Hell? Because that's how you open a portal to Hell.

  • @masonjohnson4310

    @masonjohnson4310

    Жыл бұрын

    Heavy metal intensifies

  • @nathanball99

    @nathanball99

    Жыл бұрын

    She got their orbital distances wrong, they are not the same, not even close.

  • @ikebeckman1074

    @ikebeckman1074

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nathanball99 yeah I thought so, Phobos is way closer and its fate seems to be sealed, eventually reaching the Roche limit

  • @krakhedd

    @krakhedd

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah bro Phobos is home to the Angels, Deimos to Demons and Emperor Palpatine rules Mars

  • @doctorkayne
    @doctorkayne Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you are growing as a host, you sound way more confident and fluid compared to your first vids. Thank you and the team for putting out all the knowledge you do :)

  • @MBMCincy63

    @MBMCincy63

    Жыл бұрын

    I prefer hearing her. She has a calming voice.

  • @florinadrian5174

    @florinadrian5174

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, she did great here. And the good script on a fascinating subject helped.

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 Жыл бұрын

    I don't think saturn "lost track" of a moon I think it now has to live with the scattered corpse of its moon orbiting around it forever more

  • @General12th

    @General12th

    Жыл бұрын

    Not even forevermore. The rings are slowly decaying and will fade within another hundred million years at most.

  • @veggiet2009
    @veggiet2009 Жыл бұрын

    I have theory that I had another, larger, set of keys, and the two got too close together smashing them into 1000's of key fragments all over the house. In this paper I will...

  • @garethdean6382

    @garethdean6382

    Жыл бұрын

    "Some say that my house is dusty because I don't do housework. But is it really, or is that KEY FRAGMENTS?

  • @robertt9342
    @robertt9342 Жыл бұрын

    That Saturn reference was pretty good.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Жыл бұрын

    the moon is where all our lost socks go hahaha

  • @nunya___
    @nunya___ Жыл бұрын

    At 3:34 Wait!...There's a new Jovian moon called Jaropa?

  • @MBMCincy63
    @MBMCincy63 Жыл бұрын

    And if they're not in the fridge, check the incoming door: they may be hanging in the deadbolt 🤔😂😂

  • @Ngamotu83
    @Ngamotu83 Жыл бұрын

    So what about the rings around other planets? Jupiter has a few rings, as does Uranus and Neptune. Did they get their rings by smashing some of their own moons, too?

  • @sbadvi
    @sbadvi Жыл бұрын

    Well, this video didn’t age well. Jupiter just today surpassed Saturn with the discovery of 12 new moons.

  • @tolic14ever
    @tolic14ever Жыл бұрын

    The link to your earlier video 6:20 ..at the end of this one, is not working.. put a (i) tag which appears in the right upper corner....or add link to descriptions, last case scenario add it pinned in the comment section. Thank you for the efort in sharing knowladge..❤

  • @_maxgray
    @_maxgray Жыл бұрын

    "Bad news for the moon, good news for anyone who likes looking at pretty planetary structures!" Savannah just gets more and more fun as they settle into being a host, that intonation was perfect 🤣

  • @alarcon99
    @alarcon99 Жыл бұрын

    One more reason for me to rage hate Moonfall

  • @chaosopher23
    @chaosopher23 Жыл бұрын

    The aftermath of comet Shoemaker-Levi say that a moon could have been what created the Great Red Spot.

  • @TheWolfHowling
    @TheWolfHowling Жыл бұрын

    If my housekeys are ever inside the refrigerator, something has clearly gone wrong in my day/week/life

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 Жыл бұрын

    Neat.

  • @RickySTT
    @RickySTT Жыл бұрын

    5:18 “The team noticed that the moons orbit on opposite sides but the same distance from Mars.” Since when? According to JPL, Phobos has an orbital diameter of 9400 km and an orbital period of 7.66 hours, and Deimos has an orbital diameter of 23500 km and an orbital period of 30.3 hours.

  • @nathanball99

    @nathanball99

    Жыл бұрын

    I came here to say that. The orbital parameters are entirely different! They're not even close.

  • @stile8686

    @stile8686

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed. The strange similarity is that they both have circular-ish orbits near the equator which would be strange if they are captured asteroids but they are at way different altitudes and orbit past each other all the time. I bet the writers of the paper would be astonished to hear the line about opposite sides and same distance from Mars.

  • @scishowspace

    @scishowspace

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah. This is a mistake that got past our fact checkers! The two moons are on opposite sides of the synchronous radius, which is not the same as them being the same distance from Mars.

  • @stile8686

    @stile8686

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scishowspace Ah that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

  • @TheReaverOfDarkness
    @TheReaverOfDarkness Жыл бұрын

    Mars will likely turn Phobos into a moon eventually.

  • @chippysteve4524
    @chippysteve4524 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating stuff and really well explained too! It's so much to take in in one go that perhaps if you spoke more slowly then a mere mortal like me wd be able to keep up in real time :-)

  • @TheGahta
    @TheGahta Жыл бұрын

    2:45 that made my sides hurt 🤣🤣

  • @xINVISIGOTHx
    @xINVISIGOTHx Жыл бұрын

    why are saturn's rings mostly ice if they used to be a planet

  • @stargazer5784

    @stargazer5784

    Жыл бұрын

    The moons out there contain huge quantities of ice.

  • @EliotHochberg
    @EliotHochberg Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone think that a sucked and Moon could be the reason for the big red spot on Jupiter? I know that the center of Jupiter is probably comparatively small, but could it be that when the moons hit they create some kind of a feature which then causes the storms to shape the way they do as we see them at the surface?

  • @ryanhiggins8869
    @ryanhiggins8869 Жыл бұрын

    Found a moon in my fridge… but it was just a rump roast… so not quit a full moon, I guess

  • @digitalatom6433
    @digitalatom6433 Жыл бұрын

    Earth may have also lost a moon when the first one was formed, according to a recent simulation.

  • Жыл бұрын

    What about lost moon of Poosh? 🌝

  • @TheRealPaulMarshall
    @TheRealPaulMarshall Жыл бұрын

    @5:18 - How are 9000-ish km and 23000-ish km the same distance? As they appear to be going in opposite directions as seen from the surface, how do they stay on opposite sides of Mars?

  • @nathanball99

    @nathanball99

    Жыл бұрын

    You're right, the statement is wrong.

  • @filonin2

    @filonin2

    Жыл бұрын

    The statement is silly and wrong and it really shows how little they know that they read it out without laughing.

  • @garethdean6382

    @garethdean6382

    Жыл бұрын

    This is actually part of the argument. The initial paper argued that the moons WERE at the same distance with the breakup leading to an increasing separation due to atmospheric drag on the innermost moon. The rebuttal claims to show that this doesn't add up. As you can guess the original claim is far from watertight.

  • @bbbenj
    @bbbenj Жыл бұрын

    Interesting.

  • @e_j_
    @e_j_ Жыл бұрын

    thumbnail reminded me of the outer wilds quantumn moon 🌚

  • @thomaspearce4359
    @thomaspearce4359 Жыл бұрын

    Everywhere

  • @alfiehaigh8412
    @alfiehaigh8412 Жыл бұрын

    Thought we were getting a limp bizkit cover for a second with that intro

  • @ThorinKyuubi
    @ThorinKyuubi Жыл бұрын

    Wait. Wait! What's the deal with Saturn's tilt and what's the other theory? You cannot just casually throw these things in the air and not elaborate further. We need to know! Come back with a video about this imediatelly! I need to know about the tilt!

  • @ambeegaming76
    @ambeegaming76 Жыл бұрын

    Jupiter eating it's moons sounds familiar lol

  • @varamyrsickskinzz7355
    @varamyrsickskinzz7355 Жыл бұрын

    How did the astronomers suggest Phobos and Deimos get smashed apart a billion years ago? There weren't astronomers back then.

  • @CyFr
    @CyFr Жыл бұрын

    Well I mean Earth practically stole a whole ass planet and made it into a moon.

  • @mattduncil
    @mattduncil Жыл бұрын

    I found it! They where left in the door lol

  • @nswanberg
    @nswanberg Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps most moons are composed of mostly regolith?

  • @nebulan
    @nebulan Жыл бұрын

    Well, Jupiter has a moon named Metis so... she's next.

  • @avishalom2000lm
    @avishalom2000lm Жыл бұрын

    So 99% of our Solar System's mass is in the Sun. And of the remaining 1%, 99% of that is in Jupiter. And of the stuff orbiting Jupiter, 99% of that is in four of its moons.

  • @beerusthedestroyer875
    @beerusthedestroyer875 Жыл бұрын

    So how many moons did Saturn destroy because I know one moon was big enough to create that massive ring!???!!

  • @thesilentone4024
    @thesilentone4024 Жыл бұрын

    What about the ort cloud.

  • @mobailey6666
    @mobailey6666 Жыл бұрын

    What if Earth had a ring? What would we see? What if Earth didn’t have a moon?

  • @erikswanson5753

    @erikswanson5753

    Жыл бұрын

    If Earth didn't have a moon I don't think we would even be here.

  • @Blaaake
    @Blaaake Жыл бұрын

    Where does someone get a shirt with a collar that large? Goodness.

  • @SAOS451316
    @SAOS451316 Жыл бұрын

    Venus probably also had at least one good sized moon long ago. It may have collided or got yote from the solar system.

  • @patrickmccurry1563

    @patrickmccurry1563

    Жыл бұрын

    That seems unlikely so close to the sun.

  • @SAOS451316

    @SAOS451316

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrickmccurry1563 That's why it's not there anymore, but the models say it is likely that it did have one once upon a time.

  • @johntaggart979

    @johntaggart979

    Жыл бұрын

    "Yote": is that the proper past tense connugation for "yeeted"?

  • @SAOS451316

    @SAOS451316

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johntaggart979 Yes it is! I find it very amusing.

  • @erikswanson5753
    @erikswanson5753 Жыл бұрын

    Saturn now has a total count of 102 moons. Jupiter has 93.

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia Жыл бұрын

    Yay Savannah!

  • @_andrewvia

    @_andrewvia

    Жыл бұрын

    - although whomever is editing the video makes it seem that Savannah never has to take a breath. They talk fast and clearly, and the tech edits out any blank moments, and the whole thing goes whoosh! Lots of information in a short time.

  • @queens.dee.223
    @queens.dee.223 Жыл бұрын

    It's always great to see Savannah.

  • @derhkist
    @derhkist Жыл бұрын

    So, Saturn ate one of his children ... interesting.

  • @faenethlorhalien
    @faenethlorhalien Жыл бұрын

    I do the same to hamburgers when they get really close to me, but it's not tidal forces, but by mouth, that does the job, har har har MEAT.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 Жыл бұрын

    It was never a moon, it was a space station.

  • @General12th
    @General12th Жыл бұрын

    Hi Savannah!

  • @grahamturner1290
    @grahamturner1290 Жыл бұрын

    It was just a passing phase. 😎

  • @dlatua
    @dlatua Жыл бұрын

    5th

  • @RoxaneJ14
    @RoxaneJ14 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not fat, I'm just too massive for my own good 😂

  • @Caracal-lm6es
    @Caracal-lm6es Жыл бұрын

    Missing moons? Kinda like Vulcan the missing planet?

  • @osmosisjones4912
    @osmosisjones4912 Жыл бұрын

    Wonder if those super earths have early sized moons

  • @davedee6745
    @davedee6745 Жыл бұрын

    Um, if Saturn's rings are from a torn apart moon, shouldn't the rocks and boulders that make up the rings be considered "moons" since that's what they came from. That would mean Saturn has about 1 billion moons and Neil Degrasse Tyson will be busy naming all of them.

  • @francesconicoletti2547

    @francesconicoletti2547

    Жыл бұрын

    Tyson would be lobbying to have moon and dwarf moon separated into two categories based on some arbitrary orbital mechanics that only works for the rings of Saturn.

  • @garethdean6382

    @garethdean6382

    Жыл бұрын

    Ironically a moon is generally considered to need to have a clear orbit (Not to have CLEARED its orbit, which is different.) The ring fragments don't 'count' since they're part of a crowded system, though there are 'shepherd moons' which keep some of the rings in place or distinct. A similar issue plagues Earth, which has had a few temporary 'natural satellites' in its orbit in human history.

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy11 ай бұрын

    I have now watched two SciShow Space videos, and I will never watch another one again. I am intelligent, not in your target audience.

  • @MarkVallevand
    @MarkVallevand Жыл бұрын

    Andrei, You've lost another submarine?

  • @filonin2
    @filonin2 Жыл бұрын

    5:18 Mars' moons DO NOT orbit opposite sides of Mars at the same distance, that is absurd. Phobos orbits more than twice as close as Deimos and hence at a different rate, so they could never remain on opposite sides of Mars for more than a few minutes. Who wrote this?! Why did Savannah read this silly thing?

  • @phyllisbramlett2330
    @phyllisbramlett2330 Жыл бұрын

    I just love the way Savannah tells us how things work. Thank you Savannah.

  • @DoctorX17

    @DoctorX17

    Жыл бұрын

    They're a natural fit!

  • @DrBunnyMedicinal

    @DrBunnyMedicinal

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, she's a great host!

  • @DoctorX17

    @DoctorX17

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DrBunnyMedicinal very great! Just an FYI, Savannah uses they/them pronouns (SciShow videos usually have the host’s name and pronouns in the description)

  • @filonin2

    @filonin2

    Жыл бұрын

    She's flat out wrong and doesn't realize it @ 5:18. She doesn't seem to understand what she's reading.

  • @DoctorX17

    @DoctorX17

    Жыл бұрын

    @@filonin2not all of the hosts are themselves experts on what’s being presented; often they’re simply reading a script another team wrote. So they might not understand it or recognize errors

  • @FUnzzies1
    @FUnzzies1 Жыл бұрын

    Eewwwwwww

  • @Charok1
    @Charok1 Жыл бұрын

    Not enough moons? I'll drop my pants then.

  • @Apeiron242
    @Apeiron242 Жыл бұрын

    Why are you asking us? YOU'RE the science communicators.

  • @randyselvidge5594
    @randyselvidge5594 Жыл бұрын

    Hey, Zeus ate a pregnant goddess to stop a prophecy that had Zeus' son killing him, that's the reason Athena had to get smashed out of Zeus' head.

  • @mbdzel
    @mbdzel Жыл бұрын

    Damn. How did we lose a moon. I mean we screwed we erything ellse in tne universe up so this has to be humanities fault.. right.

  • @yergot3077
    @yergot3077 Жыл бұрын

    Can you tell your CGI person to tone down the Displacement map on Mars at 5:57? Mars looks like it got scratched with coarse sandpaper.

  • @peter4210
    @peter4210 Жыл бұрын

    I tough this was gonna be some more nonsence about the dark matter hypothesis. I was about to go off on a rand about how correlation does not imply causation and that its been 100 years with out proof for a theory that assumes that our physics and mathematics are perfect when they are not. Thankfully I dont have too.

  • @filonin2

    @filonin2

    Жыл бұрын

    You assume science is based upon assumption. It is not. Look up Dunning Kruger.

  • @peter4210

    @peter4210

    Жыл бұрын

    @@filonin2 Never said I assumed anything, you just put words in my mouth. Look up dunning kruger

  • @architude
    @architude Жыл бұрын

    Is this a hypothetical revenue add raising waste of time and basic knowledge premise of how do solar systems work as we know it. Oh, yeah.

  • @gollem148
    @gollem148 Жыл бұрын

    This video seemed too much "spun-up" to grasp all the intel, especially the part where researches proposed something and then others challenged it.

  • @ChrisPikeEnterprise
    @ChrisPikeEnterprise Жыл бұрын

    Savanna talks way too fast. Please slow down…the pace is a bit frenzied and difficult to listen to and process.

  • @PrayTellGaming
    @PrayTellGaming Жыл бұрын

    I know I'm going to sound way too picky here, but why are you using the word "moon" instead of the proper term "natural satellite?"

  • @scrotiemcboogerballs1981
    @scrotiemcboogerballs1981 Жыл бұрын

    When they reset the simulation they will fix everything 😂

  • @prashantpandya2933
    @prashantpandya2933 Жыл бұрын

    Too much of assumption... Hard to believe too many what ifs

  • @josgibbons6777
    @josgibbons6777 Жыл бұрын

    We're also likely missing at least one giant planet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-planet_Nice_model

  • @ZennExile
    @ZennExile Жыл бұрын

    I don't like the fat baby moon hypothesis at all. Simulations full of collisions and explosions are more fun.

  • @justice_1337
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    incoming cHrYsaLiS sUbSuRfAcE oCeAn 🙃