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A Year on Venus Is Shorter Than a Day

All of the inner planets have mysteries that you can explain by having records to an early impact. No other planet in the solar system has such a large satellite compared to its size. And so it may be that even within the galaxy, our moon is unusual. But we also know that stuff moves around early on as well. We've basically got this chaotic picture that we don't really understand and picking out these asteroids could help us piece together what seems like a really complex history for Earth.

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