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qetral t1_j7v5uan wrote

the solar system is hoarding moons - it has a real problem

Seriously though, most moons exist because they got trapped. It's not that they're being formed by the planet on any needed basis unless that planet had something collide with it and a moon was formed that way (like earth). So I'm not entirely certain there really is an importance to having so many moons. It just happened that way over time.

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