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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: Moon Capture Theory
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:36:40 GMT
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- jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
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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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- Perhaps these corollaries originated from an intelligent species of lizard
- wiped out without a single trace by the Mother of all Extinction Events.
-