• Question: Is there a possibility of Earth getting another moon?

    Asked by AdamW to Aisling, Colin, Laurence, Ned on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Ned Dwyer

      Ned Dwyer answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Don´t think so. Our solar system was formed billions of years ago some time after the big bang and has been pretty stable ever since. We often have asteroids and meteorites passing near teh Earth, but in order to become another moon they would have to be pulled by Earth´s gravity into a stable orbit and usually they are too fast, too small or too unstable for that to happen.

    • Photo: Colin Shirran

      Colin Shirran answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I think if this would ever be the case it would have to be due to our own doing. There are currently plans to capture an asteroid and bring it into an orbit around the moon so that we can mine its resources near to earth! It would really be a moon of the moon but maybe we can count it? 😀

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