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The Lost Planet That Gave Birth to the Moon May Have Been Earth’s Next-Door Neighbor
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world ...
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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
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Theia – The Giant Impactor That Formed The Moon – Assembled Closer To The Sun Than Earth Is Now
To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...
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What would happen if Earth lost the Moon entirely
Losing the Moon would shrink tides, disrupt coastal ecosystems, affect nocturnal predators, and destabilize Earth’s tilt, ...
As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) ...
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