Scientists from the US: the Earth is the result of a collision between two planets – REGNUM

Washington, February 2, 2016, 19:01 – REGNUM A group of American scientists have found new evidence that the Earth is a celestial body that has occurred as a result of a collision between two planets. On this day, February 2, according to the website of the University of California.

The researchers tested the hypothesis that the Moon was formed by the collision of the Earth with a hypothetical planet Theia. According to this hypothesis, the collision occurred about 4.5 billion years ago or 100 million years after the formation of the Earth.

It was assumed that the collision occurred at a tangent and Theia split. One of the major fragments of the planet has been withheld by the gravitational field of the Earth and became the Moon.

The head of the research group, University of California Professor Edward Young said that if the hypothesis was correct, then the chemical composition of the Moon would be different from the chemical composition of the Earth.

To test this, the researchers used new methods for the analysis of the seven samples of lunar soil brought the mission “Apollo.” The analysis results were compared to studies of terrestrial samples – volcanic rocks were selected in six different places on the planet. It was found that the oxygen isotopes on the Moon are exactly the same as on Earth.

Then, scientists have a new hypothesis. Now they believe that the collision of Earth with Teyey were not tangent, and frontal. This blow was so strong that the two space bodies simply merged into a single planet, which became the Earth, and has broken away from her piece – Moon. It turns out that the Earth is actually composed of two planets, believe American scientists.

The only weak point in this hypothesis is the lunar soil, produced a mission “Apollo.” Solid evidence that the mission “Apollo” really fly to the moon and brought to Earth about 382 kilograms of lunar soil and is not represented.

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