Moon Chemistry Confirms Violent Origin

SPACE.com ^ | 22 August 2006 | Jeanna Bryner

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Very pretty devolve! ChocFull 'O Nuts has gone to your head!

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It does look sharp -

I need to try TP blue version on that moon

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Blue moon on fire?? LOL. Your fire-moon turned out very good!

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http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b7b414c3f78.htm#31

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Where's the Mars-like planet now? Did it become Mars or was it absorbed into Earth?

Assuming the model is true, people working on it assume part of it became roughly half the Moon itself. The reason for the size of the impactor is that the impact would produce three general outcomes for the ejecta, which can be triaged: one, the stuff that escapes; the stuff that goes out and comes back down; and three, the very narrow band of just-right trajectories that result in material which stays in Earth orbit.

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I think most agree that the moon is facing the earth because it split from the earth.

Satellites in prograde rotation gain momentum from the parent body, which means the diameter of their orbits increase. There's a similar tidal transfer of momentum from the satellite to the parent body, which accomplishes the same thing (the distance between them increases), but generally at a smaller scale. The satellite will generally reach 1:1 resonance first.

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