New computer simulations compiled by planetary scientist Raluka Rufu disprove the widespread belief that the moon was formed by a massive object hitting Earth in the distant past.
According to the scientist, the Moon was formed as a result of an asteroid bombardment of the young Earth, as a result of which about a trillion tons of space debris was thrown into orbit, which combined and formed a satellite of our planet.
Computer simulations have shown that a flurry of impacts from space bodies more than 100 million years ago could have ejected enough material to form orbiting mini-moons, which gradually merged to form the moon.
This theory contradicts the widely held belief that the Moon was born out of one extraordinarily powerful collision in which a Mars-sized object slid across the forming Earth and threw 70 billion tons of rock into space. However, many scientists are confident that if the colliding body had a different chemical composition with the Earth, then its traces must be present in the lunar rock. But the study of the satellite showed that there are no signs of the presence of alien materials on the moon.
According to Raluk Rufu, the version about the formation of the Moon as a result of the collision of the Earth with a large cosmic body is not undeniable, since the likelihood that this space object had a composition identical to the Earth is extremely small, and meteorites and other objects of the Solar System differ significantly in chemical composition from the composition of our planet.
