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Earth tilted 31.5 inches, a study finds. So whose fault is that? Humans, of course.
It's believed that when the Earth was young, "something big," about the size of the planet Mars, known as "Theia," hit it, according to NASA. The impact was so massive that it threw our planet off ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...
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Simulation of a hit-and-run collision of Theia and proto-Earth (IMAGE)
According to a new theory, there were two giant impacts in a row, separated by about one million years, involving a Mars-sized 'Theia' and proto-Earth. In this image, the proposed hit-and-run ...
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Why we think Theia existed
The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth. The immense energy from this impact not only significantly altered Earth ...
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This planet collided with Earth to destroy it, but impact gave birth to 'Moon': All about 'Theia'
These structures are theorized to contain remnants of Theia's materials ... 100,000 years of radiation': A supernova hit Earth and it may have triggered an evolutionary leap Proof of the AFTERLIFE?: ...
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Wild new theory says Earth may actually be two different planets
That impact also formed our moon, Science Alert explains. The initial working theory was that the Earth and Theia only side-swiped each other, sending the moon into orbit and then flying away into ...