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Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
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Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
The lack of clarity regarding the collision and the object that Earth collided with raised many questions, but they were ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...
In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...
New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...
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Theia And Earth - The Cosmic Collision That Birthed The Moon Were Once Neighbours, Finds New Study
The most widely accepted explanation for how the Moon was formed is the giant-impact theory. It states that a Mars-size ...
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