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Earth may have had multiple moons [1]

A new model developed by scientists has suggested that the ancient catastrophe that led to the creation of the moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth's skies for tens of millions of years. According to a report in New Scientist, model suggests moonlets may have once occupied the two Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, regions in space where the gravitational tug of the Earth and the Moon exactly cancel each other out.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Physical Science [3], Astronomy [4]
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