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Theia – The Giant Impactor That Formed The Moon – Assembled Closer To The Sun Than Earth Is Now

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed Theia slammed and merged with the primordial Earth, throwing material into ...
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Ancient planetary smash that created moon may have formed Hawaiʻi, too

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it pushes us to imagine the planet in its earliest and wildest ...