The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times the size of Mars. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images With an impact ...

According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. With an impact velocity of somewhere around 20,000 mph ...

The gigantic impact of the protoplanet Theia on Earth must therefore have taken place beforehand and not 100 million years after this calming down. According to the usual explanations, the moon ...

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It describes how the debris from the impact of Theia (a Mars-sized planet that smashed into early Earth) coalesced to form the moon. The energy from this massive event caused the newly formed moon ...