01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... by the impact. The giant impact theory basically states that late in the formation of the Solar System a Mars-sized object grazed an early Earth, throwing off a mass of material from which the Moon condensed. This impact set...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... into being after a young Earth was struck by a mar-sized object billions of years ago. The material that was flung from...that the Moon is not made of material from the Mars-sized impacting body. Righter also complemented his models with experiments...
