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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Moon Capture Theory
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:43:42 GMT
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- >>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.
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- I find it *very* difficult to believe that events 800
- million years ago would have corollaries in the myths of a species
- 4 orders of magnitude less old, except perhaps by co-incidence.
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- James Nicoll
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