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Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth (apnews.com)
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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

so, 96% of its life, and we just missed it

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize the moon was ever anything but just a dead rock floating there

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The leading hypothesis is that the moon was formed when a massive asteroid smashed into the earth and blasted a huge chunk of the earth into space, and that became the moon. If true then the moon's birth and younger existence was wildly cataclysmic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a massive asteroid smashed into the earth

Asteroid, or proto-planet?

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wiki refers to it as a "mars-sized body"

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So... the planet or candy bar?

Yes it's a joke, however if a mars candybar hits earth at 99.999999% of the speed of light, I'd imagine the impact would be anything but a blip

[–] BKXcY86CHs2k8Coz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Moon Volcano is my new bandname