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The Lost Planet That Gave Birth to the Moon May Have Been Earth’s Next-Door Neighbor
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world ...
They went through the isotope mixtures in Earth and lunar rocks instead of using highly technical models. They dabbled in ...
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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.
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.
New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its \"sister\" planet, Theia, ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
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 ...
Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
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