The Earth Scooped Thea, and Now Parts of Thea Are Inside Earth

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There's a new theory that argues that these weird earmuff blobs might be thea. That these blobs are like the remains of thea that was biscit sumed by earth. The truth is we may never find thea or get the full story of how we got our mysterious moon. But scientists continue searching because these epic moon creation myths lead to even deeper, more epic questions about our moon and about us.

In all our searching of the universe, we’ve never seen another moon like ours. It's big, it's weird, it's played a huge role in shaping our planet. But how did we get it? Every possible story points to cataclysm.

This is the second episode of our new four-part series, Lost Worlds.

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