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How To Make A Moon: New Research Is Raising Questions On Our Moon’s Birth

There are a lot of moons in our solar system—175 major planet satellites, and three times that if you count every natural satellite of every known object (like asteroids)—but among them our own capital-M Moon is in many ways unique. At a full quarter the size of Earth, only Pluto has a moon so near…

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The Apollo 12 LM "Intrepid" and mission commander Pete Conrad are seen silhouetted against the bright glare of the Sun in this picture, an edited (by me) scan (by Kipp Teague) of a color 70mm film photo taken by LM pilot Alan Bean on November 19, 1969 (NASA image # AS12-47-6950)
A view of Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, made from image data acquired by #NASA and @johnshopkinsapl’s New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019.
The tail of space shuttle Columbia is seen in front of the Cape Verde islands of Boa Vista (upper right) and Sal (lower left) in this photo taken during STS-50 on June 27, 1992 #OTD from an altitude of 163 nautical miles (NASA image ID STS050-85-28)
The crescent of Saturn's #moon Tethys imaged by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on June 27, 2005 #OTD from a distance of 489,000 km. The large crater visible here is named Odysseus, in its entirety it's about 450 km across.
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