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Controversial Moon Origin Theory Rewrites History

  • 23-10-2009 1:23pm
    #1
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭


    Interesting article apologies if it has already been posted

    "The moon may have been adopted by our planet instead of descended from it.

    If a new twist on a decades-old theory is right, conditions in the early solar system suggest the moon formed inside Mercury's orbit and migrated out until it was roped into orbit around Earth."


    Full article here http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/22/moon-earth-formation.html


Comments

  • #2
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    How fast would the earth have been spinning before it 'caught' the moon?


  • #3
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Feel free to theorise all you want, gentlemen, because ther'll never be any solid proof. This theory does make you wonder how the Earth apparently had water (as inferred from rock samples) during and after the impact in the other [Impact] theory


  • #4
    Azelfafage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭Azelfafage


    Kevster wrote: »
    Feel free to theorise all you want, gentlemen, because ther'll never be any solid proof.

    Actually.......... is is a very easy scientific problem to solve.

    Just dig up plenty of Moon-Dirt and subject it to rigorous chemical and isotopic analysis.

    That will tell you for certain if the moon is a child of the earth.

    Or if it is a lodger from another part of the Solar system which took up residence in our neck of the woods.

    (A bit like how DNA analysis proves who is the parent of a child.)

    Eezy-Peezy.
    .


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