CB rstorica #DEEPTIMEIWADAY 12:3): OY AM [rez] SATELLITE MOON IS FORMED(BB rstorica #DEEPTIMEINADAY 12:3): 0% AM THROUGH MY CURTAINS, STREAMS OF SILVERY MOONLIGHT GLEAMS: SILENT WAILS REMIND THE STORY OF A TORN HEART FROM ITS BODY NOU! THIS LUNAR WANDERER FLOATS ABOVE AS THE WORLD DREAMS GAZING DOWN ON ITS TERRESTRIAL LOVER WITH A SERENE STARE ITS LONGING FACE MELTS AWAY MOMENTARILY INTO OBLIVION But, AS I Witness, EVEN TIME CANNOT STOP THIS CELESTIAL AFFAIR, - Auveriy KanTt4.42 BILLION YEARS AGO... erica #DEEPTIMEIWADAY TH THE DIFFICULTY IW ACCESSING THE EVIDENCE, THERE ARE MANY THEORIES ON HOW THE MOON GOT FORMED, PERHAPS... wulT WAS & PART OF EARTH THAT JUST GOT FISSIONED OUT EARLY OW AS THE YOUNG PLANET ROTATED EXPELLING A SIGNIFICANT MASS, + OR IT WAS AN ASTEROID-LIKE BODY PASSING BY THAT JUST GOT CAPTURED BY EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD AND STAYED IW ITS ORBIT. OR IT WAS FORMED TOGETHER WITH THE EARTH AS A DOUBLE SYSTEM FROM THE PRIMORDIAL ACCRETION DISK OF THE SOLAR SYSTEMCB rstorica #DEEPTIMEIWADAY BUT THE MOST LEADING THEORY IS THAT OF - THE BIG SPLASH — WHERE THE MOON WAS FORMED FROM THE ACCUMULATED DEBRIS OF A COLLISION BETWEEN THE PROTO-EARTH AWD A MARS-SIZED PLANET NAMED THEIA. Tueta ( Gcioc ) COMES FROM THE NAME OF THE MYTHICAL GREEK TITANESS WHO WAS THE MOTHER OF SELENE, THE GODDESS OF THE Maou. THIS BODY WAS PERHAPS A PROTO-PLANET ORBITING THE SUN THAT WAS EVENTUALLY PULLED AWAY BY THE GRAVITATIONAL IWFLUENCE OF JUPITER AND/OR VENUS BEFORE WENT TRAVELLING TOWARDS THE EARTH AND STRIKING IT HARD,#DEEPTIMEIWADAY Was IT & HEAD-6N COLLISION? EVIDENCE SHOWS BOTH WAYS. IT PERHAPS HAD STRUCK THE PROTO-EARTH WITH & GLANCING BLOW - AT AN ESTIMATED YS-DEGREE ANGLE, THEIA'S IRON CORE MUST HAVE SUNK INTO THE YOUNG EARTH'S CORE, AND MOST OF THEIA'S MANTLE ACCRETED (I.E. IT GREW AND BECOME ATTACHED) OWTO THE EARTH'S MANTLE. HOWEVER, A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE MANTLE MATERIAL FROM BOTH THEIA AND THE EARTH MUST HAVE BEEW EJECTED (WTO ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH,THIS MATERIAL DEBRIS FROM THE COLLISION STARTED ORBITING THE IMPACTED EARTH SLOWLY AND THEN COALESCING INTO & NEW BODY: THE Moon. \WITIALLY, THE NEWLY FORMED MOON ORBITED AT ABOUT ONE- TENTH THE DISTANCE THAT IT DOES TODAY, AND SPIRALLED OUTWARD BECAVSE OF TIDAL FRICTION TRANSFERRING ANGULAR MOMENTUM FROM THE ROTATIONS OF BOTH BODIES TO THE Moon's ORBITAL MOTION.CB rstorica #DEEPTIMEIWADAY IT WOULD HAVE COLLIDED WITH AND INCORPORATED ANY SMALL PREEXISTING SATELLITES OF EARTH, WHICH WOULD HAVE SHARED THE EARTH'S COMPOSITION, ALONG THE WAY, THE Moon's ROTATION BECAME TIDALLY LOCKED TO EARTH, SO THAT ONE SIDE OF THE MOOM CONTINVALLY FACES TOWARD EARTH. SINCE THEN, THE Moon HAS REMAINED THE ONLY WATURAL SATELLITE OF THE EARTH. ITs GEOLOGY HAS MORE \DEPENDENT OF THE EARTH BUT THEIR FATES ARE SEALED TOGETHER FOREVER...CB rstorica #DEEPTIMEIWADAY SOURCE CITATIONS WaTURAL HisToey Museum (VK), HOw bib THE MOOW FORM? HTTPS: //UIVIW,. HHI. AC.UR/DISCOVER/HOW-DID—THE-MOON-FORM.HTML Mew Yorn Times (2619), How Was THE Moow Mave? We Won't Kuow UuTiL We GO Back HTTPS: AWWW, AYTUMES.COM/2ZOI9/OPAO/SCIENCE/MOON-FACTS. HTML Sciewriric AmERican (2660S), EvoLuTiON OF THE EARTH HT TPS://UWIWUI, SCLENTIFICAMERICAN.COM/ARTICLE/EVOLUTION- OF-EARTH/ THE Conversation (2626), HOW THE MOON FORMED - NEW RESEARCH HTTPS://THECONVERSATION,COM/HOW-THE-MOON-FORMED-NEW- RESEARCH 13326% SeiSHow Seace (26S), YouTube WHERE DID THE MOON COME FROM? IMAGE REFERENCES: GooseWILE I OFTEN FIND MYSELF LOOKING AT MYTHS (#MYTHEMATICAL) AND STARS eat Reet ae tN) eT Se SOMETIMES THE TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF EXISTENCE ONLY COMES WHEN I AM SEEKING OUT THE MAIN STORY - BEYOND THE NARRATIVE OF HUMAN HISTORY - TO THAT OF LIFE ITSELF. TO GET A SENSE OF DEEP TIME - LE. THE LONG AND FASCINATING JOVENEY ROR Rl ee eRe Mt ee ee RR eee ee BILLION, MILLION, THOUSAND AND EVEN HUNDREDS OF YEARS) THAT CAN BE ACUTELY DIFFICULT FOR ALL OF US. BUT JUST WHAT IF WE COULD MAP OUT THE WHOLE DEEP TIME - THE WHOLE OF ¥.@ BILLIOM YEARS - TO AN Ce ee Ede eRe ee AUIARENESS, APPREHENSION AND APPRECIATION OF LIFE'S EVOLUTION, AS PART OF ©, IW THIS MEW SUB-SERIES, T WILL BE LOOKING AT 24 LIFE'S BIGGEST MILESTONES WITH THE RELATED GEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AS THEY OCCUR AGAINST THE SPECIFIC HOURS, MINUTES AND SECONDS OW THE CLOCK TO MAKE THE TICKING OF TIME TELL A TRANSTIXING Oe ee aC ras ® Se ACLFollo} to know more prehisto: stories & other things too old! CMa bistorica “Indulge & Inspire Curiousity” Gs - eanupriykanti