Plot Twist: Moon Formed Within Hours Instead of Millions of Years
Published November 20, 2022
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Around 4.5 billion years ago, the young Earth witnessed a violent impact. It collided with an ancient Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia. The impact was so powerful that it created an enormous debris field out of which the Moon formed. This is known as the giant impact hypothesis or the Big Splash. Calculations sugges…
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