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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory

The moon is weird. It's completely unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special ...
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Earth has 7 strange quasi-moons — and you could name one of them

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maisie is the name of the discoverer's young daughter. He found the galaxy on her ninth birthday. The contest is happening in ...
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NASA’s Cassini’s last fly-by of Saturn’s weird moon Hyperion

Discovered in 1848, Hyperion is one of the solar system’s strangest objects. Although classed as a larger moon, Hyperion measures just 270 kilometers (168 miles) across. But it’s not its size, rather ...
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Strange "quasi-moon" of Earth will get one of these 7 names

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The looping trajectory of ...
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A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse

They used a dynamic simulator called REBOUND to map Neptune as a series of normal, circular moons. Then they hit that nice, ...