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Why do giant planets have many more moons than terrestrial planets?

April 26, 2017giant planets terrestrial

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Why do giant planets have many more moons than terrestrial planets?

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Gas giants are larger and there for have a stronger gravitational pull. When the solar system was forming, the larger planets with greater gravitational pulls collected more satellites and therefore have more moons.