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Pastimes : All Things Weather and Mother Nature

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From: Don Green1/25/2024 9:13:32 AM
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7 ways the Earth has changed from ancient to modern times
Ethan Siegel

medium.com



About 50 million years after Earth formed, it was struck by a large, Mars-sized object named Theia. The aftermath of the collision superheated the Earth and kicked up an enormous amount of debris, a large fraction of which wound up forming the Moon. The remainder either escaped the Earth-Moon system or fell back onto one of the two bodies. While the Moon’s far side cooled more rapidly, the near side, due to its facing the hot Earth, remained hotter for much longer. This is one of the leading scenarios for explaining the differences between the Moon’s Earth-facing and Earth-opposing hemisphere
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