Kordylewski Dust Clouds (KDC)

A recent National Geographic Article gave reference to a fact that Earth has two extra, hidden “moons”.

  • The ‘dusty moons’ National Geographic alludes to are in fact the Kordylewski Dust Clouds. A group of Hungarian astronomers recently confirmed the presence of these clouds, located in two different directions at about the same distance Moon is from Earth.
  • Kordylewski Clouds are located at two Lagrange Points- places in space where the gravitational fields of the Sun, Moon and Earth tug at each other such that an object at that point will be in an Earth-Synchronous Orbit around the Sun.
  • The Kordylewski clouds are located at the points labelled as L4 and L5 respectively.