Comments on: Did Earth Have More Than One Moon?

By: wayno

wayno — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:56:05 +0000

Is it possible that Pluto, Cedna, Eris or the other plutoids are the second moon of Earth?
Maybe knocked out of orbit by a passing star or even planet X, gravitationally captured in their current positions by the gas giants? Hell, even Mercury could be the second moon. BTW, im not convinced planet X/ Nibiru is all that true, but it sounds scary and something must of happened for the older civilizations to want to record it. I think all ancient txt is open to interpretation as their meanings for words could be different to ours and we all know the result of the game chinese whispers.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:08:12 +0000

could the earths second moon have fallen and been the astroid that killed the dinosours or the one that caused the big crator in mexico

By: Deja View

Deja View — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:56:52 +0000

Gee, maybe the planet Basidium really does exist, and Tyco Bass is planning his next trip to visit his fellow mushroom folk, the Mycetians…..

By: greg your last name

greg your last name — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:56:59 +0000

i was around at the time. i can verify that we had, in fact, 2 and a half moons. Luna, Filet, and Mignon.

By: Mang

Mang — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:38 +0000

@Al Hall

Cruithne is the best and longest known since the 80's. And it's orbit is weird. There are a couple others all discovered in the last half dozen years that I know of.

You may find a bit more here … there was even a false moon discovered about the same time.

http://mangsbatpage.433rd.com/2008/02/earths-other-moons.html

By: Dark Gnat

Dark Gnat — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:19:06 +0000

I too remember reading and seeing videos of computer models of the big whack, that created a second moon.

This second moon, according to the models, would not have lasted too long, and eventually would have crashed back into the Earth.

I don't know how this could possibly be verified, so who knows.

By: Qev

Qev — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:51:49 +0000

@Al Hall

One of those is 3753 Cruithne, a near-Earth asteroid in a 'horseshoe orbit' with the Earth. It's sometimes called Earth's second moon, but that's a bit of a stretch, really.

By: Waylander_348

Waylander_348 — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:24:24 +0000

Some computer models of the Big Whack showed that we had two moons created. They collided and much of their core dropped into the Earth, adding to our own core. We have lost several planets in the solar system. A planet the size of Mars colliding with the Earth after all created the Moon. Something caused chaos in the Uranus system. It seems reasonable that we did have two moons. Earth may even have Trojan asteroids in its orbit. Moons share the same orbit around Saturn. Pluto had a Big Whack and got three moons. The orbits are different, but it makes sense.

By: Al Hall

Al Hall — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:32:45 +0000

Hmm.. Not sure if I can subscribe to the idea, but…..
I recall some time ago of reading about a couple of rocks sharing earth's orbit.. Maybe it was a fictional story, I don't remember.. Anybody have any enlightenment?