Earth Made Up of Two Planets After 'Violent Collision' With Theia 4.5 Billon Years Ago, UCLA Scientists Find - Science - News - The Independent

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Earth made up of two planets after 'violent

collision' with Theia 4.5 billon years ago,
UCLA scientists find
UCLA-led teamreveals event also created the moon
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A planetary embryo called Theia, thought to be around the size of

Mars or Earth, collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago when our
planet was just 100 million years old.
It was already known that Theia and Earth collided, but the new
evidence from the UCLA-led scientic team shows it was less of
a side swipe, as previously thought, and more of a "head-on
assault".
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The force of the impact resulted in early Earth and Theia,
together to form a single planet, with a piece breaking o and
entering its gravitational pull to form the moon.
Researchers studied moon rocks from three Apollo missions and
compared them with volcanic rocks found in Hawaii and
Arizona.
To their surprise, no dierence was found in the oxygen isotopes
and it was established that the rocks from each shared chemical
signatures.
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Edward Young and colleagues
Edward Young, lead author of the new study and a UCLA

professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, said, We dont
see any dierence between the Earths and the moons oxygen
isotopes; theyre indistinguishable.
Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the moon,
and evenly dispersed between them. This explains why we dont
see a dierent signature of Theia in the moon versus the Earth.
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According to Professor Young, Theia was growing and would

likely have become a planet, had it not been destroyed in the
collision.
The research, funded by Nasa, the Deep Carbon Observatory and
a European Research Council advanced grant (ACCRETE) and
published in the journal Science, also raised questions about
Earths origins.
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They include, whether the collision would have removed any

water contained by Earth - before asteroids rich in water hit our
planet tens of millions of years later.
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Andrew Morris
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So "moon" rock is indistinguishable from Earth rock eh?

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@arrisdan
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This is not new. so it took the moon 4.5 billion years to move
that distance.
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IambcPentamastr
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1 hour ago
Fabricate a more believable story.

This one requires too much faith.
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iainh
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2 hours ago
How is this new? It's been common knowledge for some time
now.
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Juniper Joe
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As the article says it's truly "ground-breaking" research.

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Foghorn
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Because, until then it was a theory. Now it is

proof.
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Two bodies coming together create life. That's a poetic

thought.
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Tom Sharp
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Doesn't say that in the Bible! God made the Earth before
making the universe etc. Next they will say the Adam and Eve
(none of whom had a belly button) story was just BS!
Foghorn
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The Universe is 47 billion years old (at least, the bit we

can see is), whereas the Earth is about 4.5 billion years
old. Modern man, Homo Sapiens, has only been around
for a couple of hundred thousand years.
It makes you wonder what God was doing in the
intervening 46.8 billion years, eh?
walktheotherway
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God is not bound by time cos he is innite. He

just is. Eternally. Timeless. He puts us here for a
reason and that reason is not beyond our
comprehension. If it was it would be cruel and the
maker of nightingales can't be cruel. Neither is it
complicated. That's as far as I have got; work in
progress
Foghorn
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The maker of nightingales can't be cruel,

however, the maker of childhood cancer is
about as cruel as it gets!
"Complicated"? It isn't complicated to
believe in gods and/or fairies.. all that's
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Potter movie.
"Man is insane; he cannot make a ea, yet
he will be making gods by the dozen."
Montaigne.
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walktheotherway
God didn't make cancer though, it's a
manmade disease and yes man is as
cruel as it gets. Oh and I don't
"believe" in stu neither am I
religious. I think you assumed that.
Lessons for today: (1) It is possible to
think about "God" without being
religious (2) Mankind just loves to
blame his f-ckups on "God"
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Never seen those numbers

before: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe
/uni_age.html
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LouiseCyphre
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"47 billion years old"

LOL. You uneducated dummy.
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Neg_Dupree
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4 hours ago
Sounds like a Cash for Crash insurance job to me.

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ScottKennon
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Your mama is made up of two planets
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Ya I heard that many times, a Mars sized planet crashed

into an early Earth.
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kateisknown
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Indeed. And when I was a lowly physics

undergrad, we did exercises to calculate the forces
involved.
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Foghorn
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And now it's been proved. So, er, your point is what?
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prashant kulkarni
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Whether Human is originated from monkey or Donkey!

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Maybe not groundbreaking but certainly earth shattering!

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Earth made up of two planets after 'violent collision' with Theia 4....

Earth made up of two planets after 'violent

ground-breaking new research has revealed.

A planetary embryo called Theia, thought to be around the size of

Edward Young and colleagues

Edward Young, lead author of the new study and a UCLA

According to Professor Young, Theia was growing and would

ISS Earth timelapse

They include, whether the collision would have removed any

More about: | Science | Space| Earth| Moon

So "moon" rock is indistinguishable from Earth rock eh?

Fabricate a more believable story.

As the article says it's truly "ground-breaking" research.

Because, until then it was a theory. Now it is

Two bodies coming together create life. That's a poetic

The Universe is 47 billion years old (at least, the bit we

God is not bound by time cos he is innite. He

The maker of nightingales can't be cruel,

Less than a minute ago

Never seen those numbers

"47 billion years old"

Sounds like a Cash for Crash insurance job to me.

Your mama is made up of two planets

around for donkey's years

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Ya I heard that many times, a Mars sized planet crashed

Indeed. And when I was a lowly physics

Whether Human is originated from monkey or Donkey!

Maybe not groundbreaking but certainly earth shattering!

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