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- From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
- Subject: Re: Moon Capture Theory
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:57:18 GMT
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- Tom (18084TM@msu.edu) wrote:
- >
- > >I seem to remember some theory a while back that the moon was actually
- > >*captured* by Earth at some stage (I think it was about 800 million
- > >years ago), which also has corollaries in some of the very early
- > >human legends. That would lead to the assumption that the moon would
- >
- > This seems a rather shaky theory on first look. For the Earth to capture
- > something the size of the moon, and yet stay in the same orbit, and a
- > nearly circular one at that, seems highly unlikely. I could imagine a
- >
- > Has anyone heard of a fleshing-out of this theory? Does it use simulations,
- > of is it based just on legends, or what?
- >
- This is more from that 70's pulp book about the Hollow Moon, NASA's
- conspiracy to hide the true nature of the Apollo missions etc. etc.
- The book quotes legends as saying 'long ago, before there was a Moon' and
- things like that. Since the Moon was supposed to be a self-propelled
- starship. the usual capture issues didn't apply.
-
- 800 million years is a bit further into the Dreamtime than most legend
- hunters like to go.....
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