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We are not alone in our solar system. There are quite a few neighbors, including other planets that orbit the sun as well. A little closer to the sun we have Venus and a little further away there is Mars, the most popular planet to be visited in the future. The movements of all these planets follow Kepler’s laws. But next to all these planets we have a neighbor which is much closer and can easily be seen by eye: the moon.
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Genesis of the Moon. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_16
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