Valetudo: The Jupiter Moon That May Collide With Others
They are known as prograde moons, orbiting Jupiter in the same direction as the planet spins. They are also believed to be parts of a larger moon that broke apart long ago due to a collision.
Can Jupiter and Saturn's moons collide?
Together they make up the Solar System's two reigning planets. ... The planets are neither set to collide nor be ejected from the Solar System for a few billion years — about 10,000,000,000 — but neither can their orbits be perfectly predicted.
Do Jupiter's moons affect each other?
The moon-moon tides likely generate lots of heat inside these frigid worlds. Jupiter's "ocean world" moons may have strong gravitational effects on each other, raising big tides in each others' subsurface seas, a new study suggests.
