Moon created in violent collision with Earth, clues in Apollo rocks suggest.

The Guardian ^ | 6/52014 | Ian Sample

[Natufian]

A new analysis of lunar rocks brought home by Apollo mission astronauts has shed fresh light on the violent birth of the moon. Researchers in Germany have found small but distinctive chemical signatures that suggest the moon formed when a giant planetary body slammed into the early Earth 4.5bn years ago.

Scientists have several theories for how the moon may have formed, but the "giant impact hypothesis" has been the leading explanation for some time. A cataclysmic impact between the Earth and a Mars-sized planet, known as Theia, would have scattered rock and dust from both bodies out into space, and these fragments would then have coalesced to form the moon.

[cuban leaf]

I read a book called “The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch” a few decades ago that theorises something along these lines happening. Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” touches on it as well.

[Resettozero]

Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” touches on it as well.

Haven't read it in 40-some years but it was one heck of a wild ride back then. Not that I'm recommending it to anyone now.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

The moon was created by God on the fourth day of creations;

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

So says God in His book the Holy Christian Bible.

[Red Badger]

[Resettozero]

NO. Not that one!

[Red Badger]

....and the Jewish Torah..................

[DManA]

If someone dares ask “how” are they going to Hell?

[Red Badger]

I know. I read the book the movie was made from as a kid. It was pretty good considering the age it was written in, 1933...............

[BenLurkin]

“Waste anything except time”

[yarddog]

I think it is a fascinating coincidence that the moon and sun both appear to be the same size from the earth. Maybe it was not a coincidence at all.

[dead]

Researchers in Germany have found small but distinctive chemical signatures that suggest the moon formed when a giant planetary body slammed into the early Earth 4.5bn years ago.

That's what I learned as a kid forty years ago.

[GeronL]

It is an interesting theory. The problem is that the surface of the moon is likely covered by the remains of meteorites and stuff that have been hitting it since eternity. The rocks brought back by Apollo missions might not have even gotten any real indigenous rocks from beneath this top layer.

They need to send up a digger probe and find out.

Just my opinion.

[JRandomFreeper]

It is rather short on details....

/johnny

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that the moon is not revolving so that we can see all sides of it during the course of its revolution means it had to have spun off from Earth.

The chances of their being a "dark side of the moon" is just about nil, otherwise.

[gorush]

It sounds as though the proponents of this theory admit to the possibility that they are wrong. Do you?

[Rebel_Ace]

It is a current coincidence. Due to gravitational tidal forces coupled with the conservation of angular momentum, the Moon is receding slowly from the Earth. The physics of this can be verified by bouncing and measuring lasers off the mirrors left on the Moon.

So, earlier, the Moon was LARGER than the Sun in the sky, and in the future, the Moon will be SMALLER than the Sun in the sky.

[DocJhn]

They have had those rocks for how many years and just now drawing a conclusion! Go away! How much did Taxpayers pay this fool?

[Resettozero]

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night...

So, when He said Let there be Light, He meant something other than the sun, moon, and stars. Lot of food for thought here.

[MrB]

No, but Uranus spins sideways!