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Venus likely once had a moon but lost it, according to a new preprint study. Scientists modeled various scenarios and found the moon probably spiraled inward and crashed into Venus within 30 million to 1.7 billion years. NASA's upcoming DAVINCI mission could help confirm this theory.
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