Meanings
- uncountableastronomyThe search for, and study of, exomoons.
We ourselves prefer the "forest moon of Endor" pop-culture nod when discussing exomoonology.
2009 December 21, Lewis Page, “Aliens more likely to live on moons than planets, say boffins”, in The Register3 more examples
My research interests include the theory of transiting exoplanets, the development of novel detection techniques, signal detection theory and exomoonology.
2012, Dr. David Kipping, The Space Show (broadcast)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.
2012, Julián Chela-Flores, Fluid mechanics and systems biology for understanding cosmic distribution of life: A review, page 10With 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.
2014, Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti, Jaime Klapp, Eloy Sira, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, →ISBN, page 115Synonyms: planetary science, exoplanetology
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe search for, and study of, exomoons.
Origin
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