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Darren Williams, an astronomer at Penn State Behrend, holds models of the Earth and the moon.

Darren Williams, and a new hypothesis about the moon

New research by Darren Williams, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State Behrend, pictured here, and Michael Zugger, a senior research engineer at the Applied Research Lab at Penn State, offers a new possibility for how the moon formed: a binary-exchange capture as two objects passed near a much-younger Earth.

Darren Williams, an astronomer at Penn State Behrend, holds models of the Earth and the moon.

Darren Williams, and a new hypothesis about the moon

New research by Darren Williams, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State Behrend, pictured here, and Michael Zugger, a senior research engineer at the Applied Research Lab at Penn State, offers a new possibility for how the moon formed: a binary-exchange capture as two objects passed near a much-younger Earth.

Darren Williams, an astronomer at Penn State Behrend, holds models of the Earth and the moon.

What is the moon's true origin story?

A new study by researchers at Penn State Behrend and the Applied Research Lab offers a new possibility for how the moon formed: a binary-exchange capture as two objects passed near a much-younger Earth.
Two students talk with a recruiter at Penn State Behrend's Career and Internship Fair.

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Recruiters from 170 companies, including Honda, Westinghouse and Bausch & Lomb, will meet with students at Penn State Behrend’s fall Career and Internship Fair on Thursday, Sept. 26.