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Venus May Have Devoured Its Own Moon, Scientists Say

Original: 🙀 Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find “It turns out the gravity of the planet itself combined with the rat

Scientists suggest Venus may once have had a moon that was destroyed by the planet itself. Researchers say Venus's strong gravity, combined with its unusually slow rotation, would have caused the moon's orbit to destabilise and collapse onto the planet. The finding could help explain why Venus has no moon today and why it spins backwards compared with most planets.

Why now: New research proposing that Venus destroyed its own moon is a striking and surprising planetary science claim.

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• 🙀 Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find “It turns out the gravity of the planet itself combined with the rate at which it spins naturally caused the moon to collapse on top of it.” https:// futurism.com/space/scientists- venus-devoured-moon # venus # science · jbz@indieweb.social · 4

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