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A long lost planet once orbited next to Earth, Apollo-era moon rocks suggest
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...
Space.com on MSN
Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...
Scientists believe the moon was formed from the debris of a collision between Earth and the planet Theia, which was likely ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
A protoplanet crashed into Earth more than four billion years ago, ejecting the Moon. It is now clear where the protoplanet ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...
New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...
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Theia And Earth - The Cosmic Collision That Birthed The Moon Were Once Neighbours, Finds New Study
The most widely accepted explanation for how the Moon was formed is the giant-impact theory. It states that a Mars-size ...
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