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Tryfan915
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Just spotted this on the Beeb: Traces of planet collision found  A Nasa space telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star.
Astronomers say the cosmic smash-up is similar to the one that formed our Moon some four billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8195467.stmCrashtastic! |
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I live in hope that one day Hubble or one of it's succesors will see this happening LIVE.
(Though I suppose it would put the artists on whose impressions we currently rely, out of work)
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Live being a relative term as observing a planet 100,000 light years away would mean watching events from 100,000 years ago.  But yes, would be very cool. |
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Dutch90
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Astronomers say the cosmic smash-up is similar to the one that formed our Moon some four billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth.
I thought the Theia collision was just one of many hypotheses for the origin of the Moon? Or has it been proven now? |
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Hieronymus
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I don't think anyone has a better idea.
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"The experiment requires that you continue."
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