fossilesque@mander.xyz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agoTiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earthapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down12
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minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoI didn’t realize the moon was ever anything but just a dead rock floating there
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 months agoThe leading hypothesis is that the moon was formed when a massive asteroid smashed into the earth and blasted a huge chunk of the earth into space, and that became the moon. If true then the moon’s birth and younger existence was wildly cataclysmic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago a massive asteroid smashed into the earth Asteroid, or proto-planet?
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoWiki refers to it as a “mars-sized body”
minus-squareMelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoWhich possibly hasn’t even been fully digested yet.
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoSo… the planet or candy bar? Yes it’s a joke, however if a mars candybar hits earth at 99.999999% of the speed of light, I’d imagine the impact would be anything but a blip
I didn’t realize the moon was ever anything but just a dead rock floating there
The leading hypothesis is that the moon was formed when a massive asteroid smashed into the earth and blasted a huge chunk of the earth into space, and that became the moon. If true then the moon’s birth and younger existence was wildly cataclysmic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon
Asteroid, or proto-planet?
Wiki refers to it as a “mars-sized body”
Which possibly hasn’t even been fully digested yet.
So… the planet or candy bar?
Yes it’s a joke, however if a mars candybar hits earth at 99.999999% of the speed of light, I’d imagine the impact would be anything but a blip