About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
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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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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.
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
In the upcoming issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia, the body that collied with Earth 4.5 billion years ago thus creating the Moon. The impactor’s ...
Isotopic fingerprints in lunar, terrestrial, and meteorite samples show Theia formed in the inner Solar System, likely near ...
A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
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