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  • The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet

    04/13/2009 12:21:37 PM PDT · by Vaquero · 54 replies · 989+ views
    yahoo/space.com ^ | 4/13/09 | Clara Moskowitz
    Clara Moskowitz The solar system might once have had another planet named Theia, which may have helped create our own planet's moon. Now two spacecrafts are heading out to search for leftovers from this rumored sibling, which would have been destroyed when the solar system was still young. "It's a hypothetical world. We've never actually seen it, but some researchers believe it existed 4.5 billion years ago — and that it collided with Earth to form the moon," said Mike Kaiser, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...