In dense solid-particle disks, the mass of the largest formed satellite scales roughly linearly with disk mass, with a stochastic spread large enough that duplicated initial conditions produce very different moons.
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On the formation of satellites in dense solid-particle disks
In dense solid-particle disks, the mass of the largest formed satellite scales roughly linearly with disk mass, with a stochastic spread large enough that duplicated initial conditions produce very different moons.