Link to the simulation on NASA's Ames Research Center YouTube channel
A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin – the Moon may have formed in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and a Mars sized-body were launched directly into orbit after the impact. The simulations used in this research are some of the most detailed of their kind, operating at the highest resolution of any simulation run to study the Moon’s origins or other giant impacts.
Credit: NASA / Durham University / Jacob Kegerreis
by Busy_Yesterday9455
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For some reason I want orange juice now.
Were protoplanets really this liquidey? I mean I know this is sped up but still, hours is nuts!
Wish that other blob didn’t fall back into the Earth. Then we could’ve have two spherical moons. (Probably would’ve been incredibly unstable)
I wonder where the water in our solar system came from. We’ve found it on earth, mars and the moon right.
I would love to keep this simulation on playing in realtime. Awe inspiring.
What an amazing thing that woulda been to see.
Yeah, simulations revealed that some time ago, it’s not news
If you freeze it at 0:11 it looks like 2014 MU69
Nice try, the moon is actually a giant hollow bell made by the Anunnaki
So it was velveeta all along?
Now I feel robbed of having two moons.
I was there , can confirm. Was about 2 hours cause I remember I watched about 8 episodes of scrubs and it was finished
Can confirm, i was there.
Why did one giant blob get sucked back in, but the moon blob didn’t?
See The Giant Impact theory — Robin Canup. Fun fact: she was also a ballerina and I conducted for her in a couple of Nutcrackers.
Alexa play ‘Free Bird’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd
wouldn’t the earth spin in the direction that it got hit?
Sloppity slop slop. Your collision simulations will never explain the cause of anything.Â
The moon is a space station drug into orbit eons ago to stabilize earth’s ocean and ecosystem.Â
Imagine being able to witness such an event happen.
Now do oceans simulation.
Thats rough, buddy
That’s a quick mooning
This is very impressive. Me personally I could NOT have formed the moon this fast no matter how hard I try!
Earth: Can I have a nightlight?
God:
I feel like the scale is way off. the moon is so much further than that
[Bits of Theia Might Be in Earth’s Mantle](https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/bits-of-theia-might-be-in-earths-mantle/)
Moon getting cooked faster than this brisket I’m smoking.
Wasn’t it about 3 weeks?
It’s insane how, at these energy levels and scales, nothing is actually solid XD
pq após a colisão a terra não formou anéis, como saturno?
For anyone that doesn’t know, the “new” simulation is from 2022.
It’s like the earth regifting, or taking a rib…
Isn’t the resulting distance in this simulation still way too close to the actual moon distance?