Who wouldn't be intrigued? The earth had two moons? My original 1992 Mara Unduk story that our community theater group developed as a dance-drama depicted exactly that and how one of the two celestial bodies crashed onto the earth when a goddess was angered causing an end-of-days scenario. Few survivors were washed into an island that sprang from the sea, building a community there yet over time old mistakes were committed, spreading chaos and corruption, angering the gods once more and causing a new delubyo. Enlightenment ensued finally thereafter.
Now NASA is investigating the two moon theory, part of its GRAIL Mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 10, 2013, watch video.
Excerpts from NASA's video, Did earth have two moons?" recently posted on YouTube:
"Did earth have two moons? Nothing stirs the soul of poets
and lovers like the sight of a full moon rising on a warm autumn night. Nothing
that is, except the sight of two moons rising… If a paper published recently in
the journal "Nature" is right, two moons once graced the night skies of earth. The
idea has not been proven but it is drawing the serious attention of
researchers. “It’s an intriguing idea”, says David Smith of the Massachussets
Institute of Technology and it would be a way to explain one of the great
mysteries of the earth moon system.
"…the two moon theory introduced by planetary scientists
Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz is
the latest attempt. NASA’s GRAIL Mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center
on September 10 could help unravel the mystery. Smith is the deputy principal investigator
for GRAIL which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory. GRAIL consists of two aircrafts that will orbit the moon in tandem precisely mapping
the moon’s gravitational field and thus reveal how the moon’s interior is
layered. Among other things, this could test the two moon theory. Most
scientists believe that when a Mars sized object crashed into our planet about 4 1/2
billion years ago the resulting debris cloud coalesced to form the moon… the
debris cloud actually formed two moons."
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