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Where did the Moon come from? Scientists are using a supercomputer to find out – ZDNet
Researchers are running simulations of giant impacts on a supercomputer to find out how new planets come about.
About 4.5 billion years ago, the early proto-planet Earth was in a huge collision with a giant object about the size of Mars. One of the huge chunks of debris that resulted ended up sticking around. And that, in theory at least, is how the Moon was born.
Many unanswered questions still remain surrounding the creation of the Earth’s only satellite how big the impactor was, at what speed and angle it was travelling before it hit the Earth, and even whether the collision happened with one or sever…
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