Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of regular moons?
A) They revolve around their planets in the same direction as the planets rotate.
B) They have orbits that lie nearly in the planets' equatorial plane.
C) They are usually tidally locked to their parent planets.
D) They are much smaller than all of the known planets.
E) They formed in an accretion disk around their parent planet.
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