exomoonn.
/ˈɛksə(ʊ)muːn/, U.S. /ˈɛksoʊˌmun/ A natural satellite orbiting an extrasolar planet.
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2008 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 13 Oct. (arXiv:0810.2243v1: [astro-ph], preprint accessed 10 Oct. 2018) 1/1 Another profound reason for looking for exomoons is they are likely to be terrestrial in nature, based upon our own Solar System, and hence one would propose that exomoons could be more habitable environments than the host of extrasolar giant planets (EGPs) so far discovered.
2013 Observer 13 Jan. (New Review section) 21/5 There is a habitable zone for exomoons, it's just a little different to the habitable zone for exoplanets.
2018 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Oct. in2 Writing in the journal Science Advances, two Columbia University astronomers using the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes say they've found signs of a large gassy ‘exomoon’ orbiting an even larger exoplanet around a star 8,000 light-years away.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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