EARTH as we know it was forged in massive cosmic collision with a mysterious planet called Theia, scientists have found.
IMPACT: This is how the massive interplanetary car crash may have looked
Theia slammed into the original Earth so hard the two planets melded together – to form our homeworld.
The Moon was formed from debris flying off the interplanetary car crash
Space boffins have made the ground-breaking new discovery after examining rocks from the Earth and Moon.
CRASH: Theia may have been pulled into Earth's path by Jupiter and Venus
“Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the Moon”
Professor Edward Young
The literally earth-shattering astral encounter is thought to have happened shortly after the original Earth formed from the “solar nebula” – a cloud of gas and dust left after the Sun’s formation – about 4.5billion years ago.
About 100million years later – a brief instant in history of the universe – the new planet smashed into Theia.
Scientists believe Theia was an “Earth trojan” – a space object with the same orbit as Earth – about the same size as Mars.
They previously thought the impact was only a glancing blow – and the Moon was formed from the remnants of Theia.
Some even thought there were originally two moons – which later merged.
If that were true the Moon would be made up of different materials from Earth.
But a team from the University of California has discovered the same kind of atoms on both – suggesting the space strike was so massive it mixed the two planets together.
MOON: The discovery means the Earth and Moon were once one
Professor Edward Young, of the team behind the new theory, said: “Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the Moon and evenly dispersed between them.”
UFO hunters and amateur star gazers have warned a giant hidden planet from the outer Solar System called Nibiru will smash into Earth this year.
NASA has dismissed the theory as rubbish – but astronomers have now confirmed the unthinkable: that a giant hidden icy world dubbed “Planet Nine” DOES lurk beyond Pluto.
Conspiracy theorists are now convinced Planet Nine is Nibiru and will destroy us all.
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