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Earth contains buried chunks of an alien world that are ‘millions of times larger than Mount Everest,’ research suggests – Business Insider Australia

Chunks of dense rock hundreds of miles tall lurk in Earth’s mantle. They may have come from an ancient planet named Theia that once hit Earth.

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  • Two gigantic blobs of dense rock hundreds of miles tall sit deep inside the Earth.
  • New research suggests these blobs are remnants of a planet that hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago.
  • The collision of Earth and this ancient planet, called Theia, may have helped create the moon.
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If you were to peer deep under Earth’s crust, you’d spot two giant blobs of rock cupping the planet’s core like a pair of hands.
The source of these mysterious, continent-sized formations…

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