Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareWhat would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareSbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down9·1 year agoI think that technically we have two ‘moons’ already. Just that the other one is super small and doesn’t really have much effect on the planet. Sorry that this didn’t answer your question, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 year agoWe only have one moon of any size that we know of - earth temporarily captures asteroids a lot, but they’re not in a long-term stable orbit and so only orbit the earth for a few years before escaping There’s a good gif on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
minus-squareSbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThanks for the heads-up. It would appear I was wrong.
minus-squareInfynis@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI believe this is what they’re talking about https://www.businessinsider.com/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-chunk-moon-dangerous-space-rocks-2023-10
I think that technically we have two ‘moons’ already. Just that the other one is super small and doesn’t really have much effect on the planet.
Sorry that this didn’t answer your question, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
We only have one moon of any size that we know of - earth temporarily captures asteroids a lot, but they’re not in a long-term stable orbit and so only orbit the earth for a few years before escaping
There’s a good gif on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
Thanks for the heads-up. It would appear I was wrong.
I believe this is what they’re talking about https://www.businessinsider.com/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-chunk-moon-dangerous-space-rocks-2023-10