Or the whole article is based on some faulty science.
Imagine the moon 3 times closer. The ocean tides would be immense. The earthquakes never ending.
Maybe False Science is more accurate - I agree.
All a WAG (”Wild A** Guess), not science. Yes, a possibility, but science? No.
Because there are millions of other possibilites. Could be there are lots of asteroids somewhere who have composition very close to the earth, the moon, Mars - and other planets......and who knows what is beyond our solar system - no one.