Why the moon is shaped like a lemon
July 30 2014 Last updated at 17:54 BST clock
Scientists have been working on the reasons for the deformed shape of our Moon.
A U.S. team has calculated the effect on the shape of the new moon of the tidal forces and rotation.
They say their own spin and throw Tide earth satellites created a "lemon-shaped".
In this case, the principal investigator, Ian Garrick-Bethell, University of California at Santa Cruz, who found the shape change place when the moon is in a thin crust of rock more liquid.
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