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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.
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 ...
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...
A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...
New research reveals that Theia, the Mars-sized object that collided with Earth to form the Moon, likely originated closer to the Sun in the inner solar system.
The object that created the Moon by colliding with the Earth might also have been its neighbour, researchers suggest ...
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