Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWhat would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
arrow-up147arrow-down1message-squareWhat would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-211 months agoWe only have one moon of any size that we know of - earth temporarily captures asteroids a lot, but they’re not in a long-term stable orbit and so only orbit the earth for a few years before escaping There’s a good gif on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
minus-squareSbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThanks for the heads-up. It would appear I was wrong.
We only have one moon of any size that we know of - earth temporarily captures asteroids a lot, but they’re not in a long-term stable orbit and so only orbit the earth for a few years before escaping
There’s a good gif on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
Thanks for the heads-up. It would appear I was wrong.