Plans to divide up the moon were hit when space scientists said they now realised that the Moon is considerably smaller than we’d been led to believe.
In another Space apology it was revealed that in fact the moon was not one quarter the size of earth but around 1/16th, making it not much bigger than Nebraska and Idaho and a bit of Minnesota combined.
The division of the Moon will now be decided on a first come first served basis between the US, Russia, India, China and the Europeans.
The Australians, Brazil, Japan and the UK have given up their piece of the moon in return for a bigger piece of Mars.
The Irish were happy enough not to get any of the actual moon but were delighted to get a mention.
