Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away ...
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What would happen if the Earth had two moons
Regardless of whether or not they succeed, their ambitious idea really made us wonder… What would happen if Earth had two moons? Well, it wouldn't be pretty. Imagine the Moon's identical twin ...
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MMX – Martian Moons eXploration
The Japanese MMX mission targets both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos ... The Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will explore how the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed, and ...
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Ten Pieces - Planet Mars. 2: Dust storms and two moons
Two moons: Working with a partner, one person adopts the role of Phobos, the other being Deimos. Taking turns they travel around their partner using the quality of their ‘moon’. The non ...
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Making Mars's moons: Supercomputers offer 'disruptive' new explanation
Two hypotheses for the formation of the Martian ... Testing different ideas about the formation of Mars's moons is the primary goal of the upcoming Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) sample return ...
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SETI Institute REU Mentors 2019
He also studies asteroids and the two moons of Mars. His first book, Mission: Mars, won the 2015 Prize for Excellence in Children’s Science Books from the American Association for the Advancement of ...