01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... that calamitous changes to Earth's rotation and the tilt of its spin axis were also affected 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...
09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
...behind the demise of the dinosaurs – thankfully these types of impact are rare Large or small, the standard view of meteorite ...Schmitz’s study not only overturns generally accepted meteorite flux theories, it also provides a new perspective on where ...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... over debris coalesced together to create the Moon. The giant impact theory became the leading hypothesis for the Moon's origin as ...isotopic compositions. "So people decided to change the giant impact hypothesis," said Kun Wang, assistant professor in...
