Earth Once Had Two Moons

Did the Earth once have two moons? That is what two astronomers are proposing in order to explain some features of our current lonely moon. How do you think human life would have been different if we had looked up all these eons to see two moons?


The idea, cooked up by astronomers Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, started out as an attempt to explain why our moon has so asymmetrical a surface. The part that faces us is relatively smooth, with vast expanses of ancient lava forming flat, dark, low-lying plains that earlier astronomers mistook for oceans. But when space probes first circled the moon in the early 1960s, scientists learned that the far side is mostly covered with rugged mountains and craters.

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how about the far side is covered with craters because the earth isnt in the way to take the hits from the meteors... the moon always faces the earth so the craters that could form from meteors wouldnt exist because the meteors would divert to earth instead....
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