>Theia — known as the Big Splash — set the Earth spinning faster than ever, tilted its axis by 23 degrees, and created the moon from the debris that was blasted into orbit.
Thanks for the tides and the seasons Theia. She must have been hauling tail to not get caught in a solar orbit.
“She must have been hauling tail to not get caught in a solar orbit.”
Theia was in a Solar orbit as indicated by the 5km/s collision speed. The orbits of proto-Earth and Theia intersected in the aftermath of the earlier collisions which formed those earlier bodies.