The Great Impact Hypothesis

Thea was probably the size of Mars, a little smaller than Earth. Gravity would have brought them together and they hit head-on. The core of this planet that was destroyed. These skeletal remains of Thea burned magma hot,. then cooled into our bright, white moon.

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