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[translucentorb]

Well it wouldn't be possible during solar formation to NOT be impacted by something else, that's how all the planets coalesced.

[RtFusion]

I think Bill O'Reilly needs to watch this video.

[2degucitas]

@TenthaveFan316 The video states the remnants coalesced into the 'moon'. The gravitational forces of the orbiting degree would attract each other, forming a 'ball' over time.

[2degucitas]

@RtFusion Let's send it to him.

[Srod121]

Fuck Barnard.

[Srod121]

This is bullshit.

[InstalockLoL]

@InstalockLoL More to do with how the system was formed altogether.

[InstalockLoL]

I doubt the collision is why we are spinning considering everything in the solar system is spinning.

[Colariboo]

@HipHopResurrection11 Thanks captain obvious, that's why it's called a ''theory''. Nobody said anyone knows.

[Colariboo]

@translucentorb Yes but the point is that it may explain the origin of moon, of course planets and others formations were born by the collision of early ones!

[TenthaveFan316]

The debris from the collision would fall back down into Earth instead of remaining in orbit. The size of the object would have needed to be about three times the size of Earth in order to launch the debris into orbit.if the moon did form after such a collision, the orbit would likely be unstable with a distance of only 14,000 miles above the earth and circling it every two hours

[TenthaveFan316]

Where are the remnants of the impactor? They cannot persist as the asteroid belt; the total mass of those bodies combined would weigh about 1 percent as much as earth, and hence would not even weigh as much as Mars. If any object once co-orbited the Sun with Earth, it would still be in that orbit and would still rest in that trojan point, as the Trojan Asteroids remain today. And if such an object collided with the earth, its remnants would remain, which they do not.