The Moon, Which Seems Pretty Old, Is Actually Much Younger Than We Thought
How and when the moon formed has long been a point of contention between planetary scientists./ The moon, it turns out, is much younger than scientists previously thought. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center and the University of Münster have released . According to their modeling, it's 85 million years younger than current estimates suggest. Scientists have long estimated the moon formed some 4.51 billion years ago when a Mars-sized object (which we've since dubbed Theia) smashed into Earth. At the time, the guts of our newly ...
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