Earth’s Extra Two Hidden Moons
- Recently, a group of Hungarian scientists confirmed a long-standing astronomical speculation—the Earth has three natural satellites or moons.
- The new moons are entirely made up of extremely tiny dust particles of less than one millimetre size and reflect light rather faintly making them difficult to observe and study even when they are located at around the same distance as the Moon from the Earth— 400,000 kilometres.
- They were observed for the first time in 1961 by Kazimierz Kordylewski, a Polish scientist and they were later named after him as Kordylewski Dust Clouds (KDCs).
- These were found close to Lagrange point L5 of the ....
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