exomoonology
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exomoonology (uncountable)
- (astronomy) The search for, and study of, exomoons.
- 2009 December 21, Lewis Page, “Aliens more likely to live on moons than planets, say boffins”, in The Register:
- We ourselves prefer the "forest moon of Endor" pop-culture nod when discussing exomoonology.
- 2012, Dr. David Kipping, The Space Show (broadcast):
- My research interests include the theory of transiting exoplanets, the development of novel detection techniques, signal detection theory and exomoonology.
- 2012, Julián Chela-Flores, Fluid mechanics and systems biology for understanding cosmic distribution of life: A review, page 10:
- The bases of exomoonology are the initial success of the CoRoT mission that was the first space mission designed to search for exo-planets similar to the Earth itself.
- 2014, Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti, Jaime Klapp, Eloy Sira, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, →ISBN, page 115:
- With the advent of exomoonology (Kipping et al. 2012), the new batch of data to arrive will be particularly relevant for adding yet another factor in defining habitability and life, as suggested in a systems astrobiological approach.