A new study, published today by the authoritative scientific journal Nature, has questioned the relevance of most of the previous theories about the origin of the moon. Until now, the most likely reason for the appearance of the satellite was considered a collision with the Earth of a small meteorite. Now it turns out that the impact from the outside was much greater.
lone wolf
One of the widespread theories says that the Moon is a real planet that came into our system from the outside and was pulled by the gravity of the Earth. The scientific community is skeptical about this theory, since the Moon is not so easy to be affected by our planet. However, there are supporters of this theory among scientists: they argue that the mass of the satellite has changed upward due to space debris that has collected around it for several billion years.
Artificial satellite
According to the most fantastic theory, the Moon is nothing more than an artificial object. It was allegedly placed near the Earth in order to collect enough data about our civilization. Oddly enough, but this idea also did not arise from scratch. During the landing of the American astronauts of the Apollo 18 mission, the seismograph recorded the lightest vibration of the entire planet - such readings could only be given by a hollow sphere.
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Modern interpretation
And finally, the most recent theory, considered at the moment the most consistent. Having studied the samples brought from the Moon, scientists are inclined to conclude that our satellite is just a huge fragment of the Earth. About four billion years ago, another planet the size of Mars struck what is now the Pacific Ocean. The breakaway shard moved away a certain distance and stopped, held by the gravity of the Earth.