What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory  
Podcast: The Quanta Podcast
Published On: Fri Nov 17 2017
Description: Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evidence has cast doubt on that story, leaving researchers to dream up new ways to get a giant rock into orbit. The post What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine