Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth (apnews.com)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz on 06 Sep 2024 22:44
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expatriado@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 23:36 next collapse

so, 96% of its life, and we just missed it

Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 00:10 next collapse

I didn’t realize the moon was ever anything but just a dead rock floating there

Beacon@fedia.io on 07 Sep 2024 00:48 collapse

The leading hypothesis is that the moon was formed when a massive asteroid smashed into the earth and blasted a huge chunk of the earth into space, and that became the moon. If true then the moon's birth and younger existence was wildly cataclysmic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 04:23 collapse

a massive asteroid smashed into the earth

Asteroid, or proto-planet?

Beacon@fedia.io on 07 Sep 2024 04:31 collapse

Wiki refers to it as a "mars-sized body"

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net on 07 Sep 2024 05:02 next collapse
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 10:26 collapse

So… the planet or candy bar?

Yes it’s a joke, however if a mars candybar hits earth at 99.999999% of the speed of light, I’d imagine the impact would be anything but a blip

BKXcY86CHs2k8Coz@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 03:28 collapse

Moon Volcano is my new bandname