A New Study Sheds Light On How The Moon Comes Out
A new study, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Geoscience, shed light on what really happened by solving one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the collision. According to the massive impact hypothesis, Theia was roughly the size of Mars or about half the size of the Earth, and hit the developing Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The collision produced enough heat to form the magma and left numerous debris into Earth’s orbit....