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Planetary-mass satellites

  • Charon (moon)On the 22nd of June 1978, astronomer James Christy examined photographic plates at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station.
  • MoonFour point five one billion years ago, a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the proto-Earth. This oblique impact blasted material into orbit about our…