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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll appeared on Fox News and casually mentioned talking to “an astronaut yesterday who’s on the Moon ...
A panel of experts has picked seven finalists for the name of asteroid (164207) 2004 GU9, a "quasi-moon" of Earth. You can vote for your favorite through Jan. 1, 2025.
Strange 'quasi-moon' of Earth gets named Cardea, after goddess of door hinges. Monisha Ravisetti. Wed, January 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM UTC. 5 min read.
And the moon really is significant: It's roughly 1.2% the mass of Earth.That may not be big in an absolute sense, but for the solar system, that's huge. No other moon is that large relative to its ...
Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past.
Right now, the object is named 2004 GU9, or asteroid 164207 — but it's dubbed a "moon" because it appears tagged to our planet's gravitational tides like Our Moon™️.
This is where the rings came back into play. One possible explanation for their existence is the breakup of a moon that wandered too close to Saturn and was disrupted by the giant planet's gravity.
THEORIES REGARDING THE MOON.; Various Strange Conjectures Concerning the Earth's Nearest Celestial Neighbor Fully Set Forth in an Important Volume by Prof. Philip Fauth -- The Orb as Known to ...
Scientists found new rock on the Moon.While normally that would be a bit of a “so what” statement, this time, it’s interesting. Because it’s not just any rock.
A panel of experts has picked seven finalists for the name of asteroid (164207) 2004 GU9, a "quasi-moon" of Earth. You can vote for your favorite through Jan. 1, 2025.