Plss I need an answer !!!
2007-01-17 22:14:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If you broaden your classification of a moon into any natural body in an orbit around a central body, and which got there on it's own, then you could say that earth has many moons. At two (at least) points in the same orbit of the moon there are many very small bodies in gravitational lock with the moon and the Earth (these points are called Lagrangian Points, I think). None of these 'bodies' have ever been photographed singly, but apparently the whole group of them together is bright enough to be photographed (with time exposure, of course).
But, as I have stated in several other answers, technically the moon revolves around the sun in an orbit that is highly perturbed but the gravitational force exerted by Earth. The moon's orbit is always concave toward the sun.
2007-01-18 01:23:18 · answer #1 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have not been reading World Science magazine. The earth once had two moons. It is believed that this particular body collided with the earth at the time that the dinosaurs dissapeared. There has also been a discovery of another small body behind the moon that was be seen by one of the satelites that was sent out into space. This is believed to be a part of the second moon that broke off. However it is not conclusive. Some think it is a separate body again.
2007-01-18 06:47:59 · answer #2 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. The probability is so close to zero that it's not worth considering, assuming you mean the capture of a second natural satellite or the cleaving of the existing moon in two.
The probability that Earth will have more than one satellite, however, is 100%. There are thousands of artificial "moons" around Earth -- man-made satellites.
2007-01-18 06:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no dear, it won't have 2 moons in the future, unless some explosion happen and set new bodies , but everybody will be dead and all planets and this explosion may set another planets and moons.
2007-01-18 08:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by hossam_amin2010 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,nasa is going to tow one back from saturn in 2009
2007-01-18 08:19:36 · answer #5 · answered by john doe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if this one decides to split i guess.
2007-01-18 06:26:24 · answer #6 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋