MFM simulation of the canonical Moon-Forming giant impact. Here different colors trace different components of Gaia and Theia. The lower mantle of Gaia, denoted by the dashed circle with a radius of 0 ...
The formation of the Moon billions of years ago is cloaked in mystery. Most astronomers believe the young Earth, still cooling off from its formation, was struck by a mars-sized body called Theia, ...
An explosion in the Pacific proto-LLVP ejects the moon-forming material. Credit: Matthew R. Edwards One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a ...
About a decade ago, some researchers in the Netherlands and Russia thought it could. They proposed that lunar fission was assisted by a huge nuclear explosion occurring at the core-mantle boundary.
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