New Theory: A “Hit and Run” Accident Created Our Moon
How did Earth get its own Moon? For decades, the most popular origin story has been the “Big Splat” theory, which says an object the size of Mars impacted the Earth more than three billion years ago, flinging material into space which became the Moon. https://gizmodo.com/witness-the-moons-breathtaking-4-5-billion-year-evoluti-5893310 https://gizmodo.com/did-earth-once-have-two-moons-5827021 But now there’s new evidence that the Big…