[meteorite-list] Moon and Earth Formed out of Identical Material

From: Steven Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:12 2004
Message-ID: <200110131342.JAA02659_at_melbourne-city-street.mit.edu>

>From the impactor.

At 11:54 PM 10/12/01 +0000, wilson alveraz wrote:

>
> >The theory states that, about 50 million years after the birth of the solar
> system,
> >a planet of the size of Mars -- called Theia after the mother of the Greek
> moon goddess, >Selene -- collided with the proto-earth. At this time the
> earth was in the latter stages of its >formation and had about 90% of the
> mass it has today
>
> Where did the otehr 10% come from?
>
> Thanks you
>
> Wilson
>
>
>
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Steven Singletary
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Dept. Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
M.I.T.
Cambridge, Ma., 02139
Jumper_at_MIT.EDU

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Received on Sat 13 Oct 2001 09:43:19 AM PDT