Post by sherlew99 on Apr 15, 2016 14:31:07 GMT -6
Universe Today
Moon
Second Moon May Have Orbited Earth Billions of Years Ago
3 Aug , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson
It’s a view science fiction fans could only hope for: twin moons in the night sky above Earth. But it might have been reality about 4 billion years ago. A new model suggests the lunar farside highlands could have been created from a collision with a smaller companion moon in what scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz are calling “the big splat.”
Moon
Second Moon May Have Orbited Earth Billions of Years Ago
3 Aug , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson
It’s a view science fiction fans could only hope for: twin moons in the night sky above Earth. But it might have been reality about 4 billion years ago. A new model suggests the lunar farside highlands could have been created from a collision with a smaller companion moon in what scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz are calling “the big splat.”
Click here for the article.
Although this hypothesis has been around awhile, it's still an interesting one.
