The Moon is Older Than Scientists Thought

[Binary_Bark]

The most comprehensive and widely-held theory of how the Moon formed is called the ‘giant impact hypothesis.’ That hypothesis shows that about 150 million years after the Solar System formed, a roughly Mars-sized planet named Theia collided with Earth. Though the timeline is hotly-debated in the scientific community, we know that this collision melted Theia and some of Earth, and that molten rock orbited around Earth until it coalesced into the Moon.

More At: https://www.universetoday.com/143025/the-moon-is-older-than-scientists-thought/

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Paging Immanuel Velikovsky..

 

[Gordon_R]

Interesting research. Having the lunar samples in laboratories, allows careful study decades after Apollo.

There are several competing versions of the lunar impact theory. There was quite an interesting one in the July Scientific American (print copy), but I can't link any of the text.

 

[gregmcc]

Found this pretty interesting.