Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:37:44 -0600 Message-ID: <56B2F1D5.5BD8@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:38:13 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.physics Subject: Re: Moon was produced by head-on collision? References: <56B2EE3A.584E@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 76 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-HfBrjBzWhmikv6mI+oWPUDEnNBVYkafOcg30meiffVAMscGacVOC2aXfKTUIL6T3V+AFul+N5oIy+gU!fcNimySYr0OCD+AevFq6Id9MwQstcanZrVs52aDVW9PZn/tvi7/yUlOoH1MR1v/t9tLHWybnCfEl!ca8PHjgImA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3953 X-Received-Bytes: 4065 X-Received-Body-CRC: 40589067 Xref: csiph.com sci.astro:57672 sci.physics:550409 The Starmaker wrote: > > Steve Willner wrote: > > > > As I wrote earlier, I'm not an expert on this, and a quick web search > > didn't turn up anything definitive. The search did show that the > > isotope data have been disputed going back at least as far as 2012. > > It's also important to remember that there are other kinds of data > > including elemental composition of both bodies. > > > > In article , > > Yousuf Khan writes: > > > Other ones that would still be viable are the Fission hypothesis, where > > > the Moon was once a part of the Earth, but due to an imbalance it > > > pinched itself off of the Earth. This would certainly maintain identical > > > isotope levels between the Earth and Moon. > > > > If the early Earth was spinning fast enough to cause it to fission, > > how could it ever have formed in the first place? For this > > hypothesis to be viable, someone would have to produce a real > > calculation. > > > > > Another one is the Condensation Hypothesis, which suggested that the > > > Earth and Moon formed from the same section of the original solar system > > > nebula. So basically the two worlds evolved together as a twin planet > > > system. This would also pretty much maintain identical isotope levels. > > > > Also identical element composition, it would seem. Isn't the Moon > > much-depleted in iron? That's a natural consequence of the impact > > hypothesis but seems hard to explain if two bodies formed near each > > other. > > > > I don't think the full answer is known yet, but the impact hypothesis > > has a lot to like. > > It is possible that the moon had an impact with surrounding planets... > that there was a collision between mars, earth, other planets...and the > moon, > but the moon is not a product of earth or any other planet. > > The impact of planets against other bodies was the result and design of > triangle singularity > and the big bang. > > The moon was just rolling along just like everybody else. > > Maybe you guys don't get it. > > Maybe I need to explain it in a different way....from a different angle > or point of view. > > > If you reverse the universe > to the beginning... > when it all comes to a point.. > what shape is the point? round, square or triangle?? How about... have you heard the expression 'killing two birds with one stone'? Now, imagine every planet in the universe represents a bird... kill them all with one stone. In other words...you create a universe with one stone. Now, if you still don't get it... look for a stone then look for two birds. Now, try to kill both birds with one stone.