{"id":328,"date":"2007-11-21T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2007-12-12T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:26:45","slug":"another-reason-earth-is-special-its-moon-is-a-cosmic-rarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/another-reason-earth-is-special-its-moon-is-a-cosmic-rarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason earth is special &#8211; its moon is a cosmic rarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7104558.stm\">The earth&#8217;s moon was created<\/a> when an object as big as the planet Mars smacked into the Earth billions of years ago and the impact hurled debris into orbit, some of which eventually consolidated to form our Moon. A study by US astronomers published in the Astrophysical Journal\u00a0reports that only 5-10% of planetary systems in the Universe have moons created this way.<\/p>\n<p>This finding supports James Lovelock&#8217;s Gaia hypothesis or similar which points out the\u00a0amazing system of nature that supports earth&#8217;s biosphere and raises awareness that we must look after this unique system better than we have in the last 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earth&#8217;s moon was created when an object as big as the planet Mars smacked into the Earth billions of years ago and the impact hurled debris into orbit, some of which eventually consolidated to form our Moon. A study by US astronomers published in the Astrophysical Journal\u00a0reports that only 5-10% of planetary systems in &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/another-reason-earth-is-special-its-moon-is-a-cosmic-rarity\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another reason earth is special &#8211; its moon is a cosmic rarity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}