The
moon formed from a
vaporizing collision involving the
Earth, study finds
Scientists have gone back and forth about explanations for the moon's formation for decades, with the general consensus being that it
formed during some type of cosmic
collision between Earth and a Mars-sized space object about 4.5 billion years ago.*
However, the exact type of impact continues to be hotly debated. Was it a slow, grazing swipe of
Earth, or a massive
collision that effectively vaporized early planet Earth?
A
new study in the journal
Nature on Monday lends credence to the idea that the
moon was
formed from the aftermath of a huge
vaporizing collision involving Earth and a**ther large object in space.
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