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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
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Earth may contain remnants of an ancient world. New study
The ancient planet, known as Theia (or sometimes Orpheus), was completely destroyed. The majority of its mass and a part of ...
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Why we think Theia existed
We do not know for sure if Theia existed and if it collided with the young proto-Earth, but the evidence is compelling. For one, we are the only rocky planet with a substantial moon. Mercury and ...
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This planet collided with Earth to destroy it, but impact gave birth to 'Moon': All about 'Theia'
These structures are theorized to contain remnants of Theia's materials ... the stars ‘Snowball Earth’: How volcanoes saved our planet from its deepest freeze in history ...