A new study has found that everything we know about the moon’s origin may be wrong.
Ever since man first landed on the moon, scientists have believed that the moon came into existence as a result of a violent collision between Earth and another rocky planet.
However, according to a new paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, the moon may have been taken from the orbit of another space object during its close pass.
This collision theory, called the ‘giant impact hypothesis’, suggests that the Moon was formed from debris from a massive collision between an early Earth and a Mars-like protoplanet Thea.
The collision was so powerful that it vaporized parts of both Earth and Thea into space and eventually coalesced into the Moon.
