Is it true that earth has 3 moons?
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no earth has two hidden moons not three but after speculation it is proved it has three moons
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No, it is not impossible. Mars is far smaller than Earth (about 11% the mass) and it managed to capture two asteroids as moons.
The formation of Earth’s large moon may have swept up other natural satellites, but at the correct orbital distances Earth could have several natural satellites. Currently Earth has thousands of man-made satellites orbiting at a variety of distances.
In the future, it is possible that people will deflect asteroids into Earth’s orbit in order to take advantage of the resources contained in these bodies.
In 2016 an asteroid HO3 was found to be orbiting the Earth at distance of about 5 million km, and from 2003, YN 107 maintained a distant orbit for 10 years. So for a short time Earth probably did have 3 natural satellites.
Thomas Dalton brought to my attention that he thought “moons like ours” meant 3 moons of the same size as our moon. If this were the case, it would be very difficult to have 3 moons the size of ours orbiting the Earth unless some very unlikely event during the formation of our solar system caused 3 dwarf planets the size of our moon to be captured into Earth’s orbit to allow them all to take up orbits without colliding. Not impossible though as a moon at 300,000 km orbit, 600,000 km and 900,000 km would make for some interesting skies and tides but would function without collision,
Since our moon appears to have been formed by ejecta of a Theia/Earth collision and our moon moved from an initial orbit of about ~20,000 km to its current one of ~ 384,000 km, having this happen 3 times since Earth formed is unlikely enough to be virtually impossible, and would have left Earth’s surface molten during 3 wide-spaced events, creating a very different surface and history.
The formation of Earth’s large moon may have swept up other natural satellites, but at the correct orbital distances Earth could have several natural satellites. Currently Earth has thousands of man-made satellites orbiting at a variety of distances.
In the future, it is possible that people will deflect asteroids into Earth’s orbit in order to take advantage of the resources contained in these bodies.
In 2016 an asteroid HO3 was found to be orbiting the Earth at distance of about 5 million km, and from 2003, YN 107 maintained a distant orbit for 10 years. So for a short time Earth probably did have 3 natural satellites.
Thomas Dalton brought to my attention that he thought “moons like ours” meant 3 moons of the same size as our moon. If this were the case, it would be very difficult to have 3 moons the size of ours orbiting the Earth unless some very unlikely event during the formation of our solar system caused 3 dwarf planets the size of our moon to be captured into Earth’s orbit to allow them all to take up orbits without colliding. Not impossible though as a moon at 300,000 km orbit, 600,000 km and 900,000 km would make for some interesting skies and tides but would function without collision,
Since our moon appears to have been formed by ejecta of a Theia/Earth collision and our moon moved from an initial orbit of about ~20,000 km to its current one of ~ 384,000 km, having this happen 3 times since Earth formed is unlikely enough to be virtually impossible, and would have left Earth’s surface molten during 3 wide-spaced events, creating a very different surface and history.
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