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The Moon WASN'T formed with one giant impact but had a bombardment birth after 20 moonlets hit...
Daily Mail ^ | January 9 2017 | AFP

Posted on 03/18/2018 6:36:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

In such a scenario, scientists expect that about a fifth of the Moon's material would have come from Earth and the rest from the impacting body. The Moon, our planet's constant companion for some 4.5 billion years, may have been forged by a rash of smaller bodies smashing into an embryonic Earth, researchers have revealed. A bombardment birth would explain a major inconsistency in the prevailing hypothesis that the Moon splintered off in a single, giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized celestial body. In such a scenario, scientists expect that about a fifth of the Moon's material would have come from Earth and the rest from the impacting body. Multiple hits would have excavated more Earth material than a single one, which means the moonlets would more closely resemble our planet's composition, said the study authors. Yet, the makeup of the Earth and the Moon are near identical -- an improbability that has long perplexed backers of the single-impact hypothesis... Every collision would have formed a disk of debris around the proto-Earth which would, in turn, clump together to form a 'moonlet', they found. Around 20 moonlets would eventually coalesce to form the Moon.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; lunarimpact; lunarorigin; moon; science; themoon
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To: Larry Lucido; beethovenfan; BenLurkin; faithhopecharity; eldoradude; Dagnabitt; Inyo-Mono
The current model of lunar formation grew out of the data from the lunar missions, in particular, the isotope ratios of the lunar soil samples as compared with those of the Earth.

In more recent years, a couple of problems arose; the math shows that the composition of the formed Moon would be about half from the proto-Earth and half from the impactor. The isotope ratios are not an exact match, but none of the known isotope ratiios from the rest of the Solar System would provide the needed match.

The second problem is obscure, but is my favorite -- that the fossil nautiloids preserve the major septa, showing the lunar month length over a couple hundred million years. There was a nice slow lengthening of the month, but the Moon was far too close at the beginning of the fossil sequence to permit an impact origin of the Moon -- the Moon has to have been formed elsewhere and captured. Since there's no way around the fossil evidence, the non-exact / pretty close match of the isotope ratios loses significance quickly.

21 posted on 03/18/2018 7:09:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Captured? I wonder where it came from.


22 posted on 03/18/2018 7:15:02 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: SunkenCiv

Mare Crisium is 555 km (345 mi) in diameter,[1] and 176,000 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi) in area.

List of US States By Size
17 North Dakota 68,976
18 Missouri 68,886
19 Oklahoma 68,667

Mare Crisium - #8

Does that give you a proportional perspective?

23 posted on 03/18/2018 7:17:09 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7KK31imN_Y


24 posted on 03/18/2018 7:28:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Fungi

You’re extensive and well supported criticism is very convincing.


25 posted on 03/18/2018 7:28:27 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Guess the original moon theory is no longer settled science. Sorta like AGW or Artic losing all ice or Antartica ice diminishing or like the new Ice Age, or Alcar scare, or Ozone depletion, or population explosion eradicating humanity, or nature vs nurture, Pluto being a planet, or string theory or ?????

Sheesh, I have come to believe that modern scientists are not they're all cracked up to be. I question so much that "scientists" theorize. Funny how Copernicus and Newton and others were correct in their theories. Every time I watch Sheldon as a theoretical physicist with his white board on "Big Bang", I chuckle. Hey, how about that Haldron collider that didn't prove squat?

26 posted on 03/18/2018 7:30:19 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In other words, speculating “scientists” still don’t know.

Basicaly that is all todays science is reduced to, as it can easily reverse itself given enough time and new findings.


27 posted on 03/18/2018 7:39:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank you for those links, interesting stuff.


28 posted on 03/18/2018 7:46:16 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought the Moon was Cheese.


29 posted on 03/18/2018 7:52:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Fungi

I’m wondering what the basis is for your labeling a new theory “nonsense”. You must have some basis for your statement. Obviously you weren’t there eons ago.

So what is the basis for your statement? Alternative theories, research, data?


30 posted on 03/18/2018 7:54:01 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: Dagnabitt

Read my post again, then get back to me.


31 posted on 03/18/2018 7:56:52 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: granite
I often wonder how all the water got here

Read the first six chapters of Genesis. That will answer a lot of your questions.

32 posted on 03/18/2018 8:09:13 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Fungi
Sorry I missed your "all science it ungodly" post. My bad.


33 posted on 03/18/2018 8:19:25 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: PAR35

Thanks for clearing that up. Wish we would stop wasting all that money on basic science, technology, advanced research, space exploration, etc. All the answers are already in a book.


34 posted on 03/18/2018 8:22:31 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: Dagnabitt

Correct a fool and be called foolish. —Euripedes

Your intent was what? Try again.


35 posted on 03/18/2018 8:28:11 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SunkenCiv

So, this was sometime within the past 6000 years?


36 posted on 03/18/2018 8:30:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Fungi
Someone took your picture (no it didn't steal your soul) at the "howl-at-stuff-not-in-my-book" rally.


37 posted on 03/18/2018 9:05:33 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: Larry Lucido

I blame global warming.


38 posted on 03/18/2018 9:07:35 PM PDT by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

somebody left the tap open. Prolly aliens.


39 posted on 03/18/2018 9:08:53 PM PDT by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: Pelham
"somebody left the tap open. Prolly aliens."

The only theory I've heard is that the earth was somehow pelted with massive "snowballs" from deep space, which just happened to strike this tiny planet.
40 posted on 03/18/2018 9:18:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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