RE: Evidence of how our Moon formed... found?
July 6, 2014 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 7:23 pm by A Theist.)
(July 5, 2014 at 3:42 pm)AstroNerd Wrote: Known as Catastrophic Theory: about 4 1/2 billion years ago an object the size of of Mars smashed into the Earth, as a glancing blow creating the Moon from the ejecting material.
Also referred to as the period of "The Great Bombardment". The Mars sized object was theorized to have been traveling at a speed of 250,000 mph when it smashed into the Earth. The debris from the impact formed into two smaller "moons" which circled the Earth at a very rapid rate. The two later collided to form our Moon. So a similar theory goes.
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