An immense asteroid that is following Mars’ circle could be our Moon’s ‘tragically missing twin’.
This is concurring researchers who state the space rock has an indistinguishable piece to certain pieces of the lunar surface.
The specialists think asteroid (101429) 1998 VF31 could have old causes closers to home.
They said it very well may be a “relic piece of the Moon’s unique strong outside layer”.
Researchers utilized an instrument called a spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory’s 26-foot Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to watch the asteroid.
It permitted them to perceive how daylight reflected from it and afterward they contrasted it with the Moon.
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium astrochemist Galin Borisov clarified: “The range of this specific asteroid is by all accounts right around a carbon copy for parts of the Moon where there is uncovered bedrock, for example, hole insides and mountains.”
We don’t know without a doubt why that is nevertheless one hypothesis is that the Moon and the asteroid have a comparative birthplace or were once joined and afterward broke separated.
AOP cosmologist Apostolos Christou stated: “The early Solar System was totally different from the spot we see today.
“The space between the recently framed planets was loaded with trash and crashes were typical.
“Huge asteroids [planetesimals] were continually hitting the Moon and different planets.
“A shard from such a crash might have arrived at the circle of Mars when the planet was all the while framing and was caught in its Trojan mists.”
There are supposed to be different clarifications for the likenesses however and the asteroid could even be a part of Mars itself.
Significantly more examination is required before we can be sure in any case.