Physicists work out what number of moons Earth might have


Simulations recommend that Earth might theoretically host two extra moons the scale of the one we have now, or a number of smaller moons

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12 August 2022

Earth could theoretically host two more moons the same size as the current moon. If the extra moons were smaller, it could have even more.

A simulation exhibits that Earth might host three moon-sized moons

Billy Quarles

Earth might theoretically host two extra moons the identical dimension as the present moon. If the additional moons have been smaller, our planet might host much more.

The bigger planets in our photo voltaic system have much more moons than the smaller, rocky worlds – Jupiter has at the least 79 moons, whereas Mars has two, Venus has none, and Earth solely has the one. Intrigued by this truth, Suman Satyal on the College of Texas at Arlington and his colleagues got down to …