00:00What if I told you Earth has more than one moon?
00:03Scientists just revealed we actually have at least six moons orbiting us right now,
00:07and they've been hiding in plain sight.
00:10These aren't giant glowing orbs like the one we all know.
00:13They're called minimoons, tiny, six-foot-wide moon fragments
00:16that broke off during massive asteroid impacts.
00:19When an asteroid smashes into the moon, debris flies out.
00:23Some chunks are big enough to get caught by Earth's gravity.
00:26These become temporary moons,
00:28dancing around us for months or even years before floating off into space again.
00:32It's like a cosmic square dance.
00:34Partners come and go, switching places,
00:37spinning in and out of Earth's embrace.
00:39And here's the wildest part.
00:41Some of these minimoons aren't even asteroids at all.
00:44They're actual pieces of our moon!
00:46New research on two space rocks, Kamoa Liwa and 2024 PT5,
00:51shows they reflect light exactly like moon dust,
00:54packed with the same silicates found in lunar rock.
00:57If that's true, these minimoon kids were born from our moon,
01:01making Earth their cosmic grandparent.
01:03Turns out, our moon has been quietly giving birth to many versions of itself,
01:07and we've only just noticed.
01:09We're fixing to track this over the next one.
01:13We're not making a perfect plan to realize our own story.
01:17We're making a perfect plan to enable the next one.
01:19And the next one, we're looking for a new way.
01:21And the next one, we're looking at the next one.
01:22We'll see you next time.
01:23We're looking for this next week at the end.
01:24We're looking for this.
01:25We're looking for this.
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