What If a Large Asteroid Were to Hit the Moon?
The asteroid passing by Earth later today could do very little damage to the moon, though the two won't get that close More »
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Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.
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