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German scientists found that the moon arose after 50 million years after the formation of the solar system. According to the findings scientists, our main satellite is older than even the Earth itself.
Earlier studies showed that the moon could be formed no later than 150 million years after the formation of the Earth. Scientists carefully examined samples of lunar soil delivered Apollo mission and concluded that the moon formed 4.51 billion years ago.
For their study, experts analyzed the amount isotopes of tungsten and hafnium. It is known that the breakdown of hafnium into tungsten lasted for 70 million years from its inception Solar system. Thanks to this, it was also possible to determine that rocks containing these isotopes cooled much earlier.
It turns out that the Earth collided with a massive object through several tens of millions of years since the inception of the Solar system, which was a consequence of the appearance of the moon – satellite Of the earth.
Andrey Vetrov
Moon Solar System
