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Moon created in violent collision with Earth, clues in Apollo rocks suggest.
The Guardian ^
| 6/52014
| Ian Sample
Posted on 06/05/2014 1:18:44 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; creation; lunarorigin; moon
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:18:44 PM PDT
by
Natufian
To: Natufian
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.
To: cuban leaf
Velikovskys 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.
To: Natufian
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:29:48 PM PDT
by
The_Republic_Of_Maine
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To: Resettozero
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:30:37 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Red Badger
To: The_Republic_Of_Maine
....and the Jewish Torah..................
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:31:40 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: The_Republic_Of_Maine
If someone dares ask “how” are they going to Hell?
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:32:22 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Resettozero
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...............
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:32:35 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Red Badger
“Waste anything except time”
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:32:47 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Natufian
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:32:54 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Natufian
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:33:51 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Natufian; SunkenCiv; a fool in paradise
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:34:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: DManA
It is rather short on details....
/johnny
To: Natufian
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:35:16 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: The_Republic_Of_Maine
It sounds as though the proponents of this theory admit to the possibility that they are wrong. Do you?
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:35:44 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: yarddog
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.
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:36:55 PM PDT
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They have had those rocks for how many years and just now drawing a conclusion! Go away! How much did Taxpayers pay this fool?
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:37:40 PM PDT
by
DocJhn
To: The_Republic_Of_Maine
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.
To: DManA
No, but Uranus spins sideways!
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:40:22 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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