The Earth has a single natural satellite, the moon. Our home planet’s moon is not a typical example of other moons in the solar system. For instance it is considered a much too large satellite for a planet the size of the Earth.<\/p>\n
Now there is a theory being put forth by the researchers at\u00c2\u00a0the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science which suggests that the moon is not the original satellite of Earth. In fact it is the last in a series of satellites that have revolved around the planet.<\/p>\n
They propose that originally there were a number of smaller moons, or moonlets if you will, that orbited the Earth. Over the millennia these smaller moonlets began to collide into each other, forming a larger mass. As their orbits crossed, collided and merged the moonlets eventualy took shape of the present day Moon.<\/p>\n
Prof. Hagai Perets, of the Technion says that they\u00c2\u00a0believe Earth had many previous moons.\u00c2\u00a0Prof. Raluca Rufo from\u00c2\u00a0Weizmann Institute says that a\u00c2\u00a0long series of such moon-moon collisions could gradually build-up a bigger moon – the Moon we see today. Their science project<\/a> was reported in the publication\u00c2\u00a0 Nature Geoscience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Earth has a single natural satellite, the moon. Our home planet’s moon is not a typical example of other moons in the solar system. For instance it is considered a much too large satellite for a planet the size of the Earth. Now there is a theory being put forth by the researchers at\u00c2\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}