Revealed: The Awesome Explanation for the Moon’s Extra Gravity
Hint: it involves lemon meringue pie!
Michael Lemonick
I'm an ex-TIME writer and current TIME contributor. I now write for Climate Central, a nonprofit, non-advocacy climate communications firm
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