Our moon is a true enigma that baffles even modern astronomers –

 

 

How The Moon Was Born

world-mysteries.com

 

“How scientists believe our moon came into existence.

 

Several mechanisms have been proposed for the Moon’s formation 4.527 ± 0.010 billion years ago, some 30–50 million years after the origin of the Solar System. These included the fission of the Moon from the Earth’s crust through centrifugal force, which would require too great an initial spin of the Earth, the gravitational capture of a pre-formed Moon, which would require an unfeasibly extended atmosphere of the Earth to dissipate the energy of the passing Moon, and the co-formation of the Earth and the Moon together in the primordial accretion disk, which does not explain the depletion of metallic iron in the Moon. These hypotheses also cannot account for the high angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system…”

 

So, what really happened? And how did the ancient Sumerians know so much about it thousands of years ago? Read the complete article here.

 

 

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This post was written by Emily, co-editor of the blog.

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