3I/Atlas's nickel suggests it’s a fragment of a differentiated body. Warming, CO vents over nickel grains at the temperatures and pressures to form nickel carbonyl—basically the Mond process in space. Not alien tech, just natural metallurgy from a shattered protoplanet.
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
3I/Atlas's nickel suggests it’s a fragment of a differentiated body. Warming, CO vents over nickel grains at the temperatures and pressures to form nickel carbonyl—basically the Mond process in space. Not alien tech, just natural metallurgy from a shattered protoplanet.
What would happen to a gaseous exoplanet if it was struck by a protoplanet? Recent research suggests that it would ring like a bell, and that just maybe, we’d be able to observe this ringing back on Earth. aasnova.org/2025/10/24/p... 🔭🧪
Planets Can Be Bells: The Aftermath of Major Mergers
New research suggests that giant planets likely ring like bells after they collide with other worlds.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What would happen to a gaseous exoplanet if it was struck by a protoplanet? Recent research suggests that it would ring like a bell, and that just maybe, we’d be able to observe this ringing back on Earth. aasnova.org/2025/10/24/p... 🔭🧪
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Theia was literally a ball of fire Mars-sized protoplanet that, according to the widely accepted giant impact theory collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
This colossal impact is believed to have ejected vast amounts of debris into Earth's orbit, which eventually coalesced
Theia was literally a ball of fire Mars-sized protoplanet that, according to the widely accepted giant impact theory collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
This colossal impact is believed to have ejected vast amounts of debris into Earth's orbit, which eventually coalesced
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Theia was literally a ball of fire Mars-sized protoplanet that, according to the widely accepted giant impact theory collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
This colossal impact is believed to have ejected vast amounts of debris into Earth's orbit, which eventually coalesced
Theia was literally a ball of fire Mars-sized protoplanet that, according to the widely accepted giant impact theory collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
This colossal impact is believed to have ejected vast amounts of debris into Earth's orbit, which eventually coalesced
A couple centuries ago, philosophers mused that we'd never know what stars are made of.
Today, JWST is measuring the detailed composition of a protoplanet & possible moons forming around it. The results show complex reactions brewing around a newborn world. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Today, JWST is measuring the detailed composition of a protoplanet & possible moons forming around it. The results show complex reactions brewing around a newborn world. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A couple centuries ago, philosophers mused that we'd never know what stars are made of.
Today, JWST is measuring the detailed composition of a protoplanet & possible moons forming around it. The results show complex reactions brewing around a newborn world. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Today, JWST is measuring the detailed composition of a protoplanet & possible moons forming around it. The results show complex reactions brewing around a newborn world. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Using the Magellan Telescope in Chile & the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona astronomers captured a striking new view of the protoplanet WISPIT 2b — a gas giant in its infancy estimated to be about 5x more massive than Jupiter and just five million years old.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Using the Magellan Telescope in Chile & the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona astronomers captured a striking new view of the protoplanet WISPIT 2b — a gas giant in its infancy estimated to be about 5x more massive than Jupiter and just five million years old.
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The body, known as WISPIT 2b, is technically a young 'protoplanet', because it hasn't yet become a fully-fledged planet and is still in the process of forming.
It's very young in planetary terms, at just 5 million years old. To put it into perspective, Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
The body, known as WISPIT 2b, is technically a young 'protoplanet', because it hasn't yet become a fully-fledged planet and is still in the process of forming.
It's very young in planetary terms, at just 5 million years old. To put it into perspective, Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The body, known as WISPIT 2b, is technically a young 'protoplanet', because it hasn't yet become a fully-fledged planet and is still in the process of forming.
It's very young in planetary terms, at just 5 million years old. To put it into perspective, Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
The body, known as WISPIT 2b, is technically a young 'protoplanet', because it hasn't yet become a fully-fledged planet and is still in the process of forming.
It's very young in planetary terms, at just 5 million years old. To put it into perspective, Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
A new take on the formation of the moon [via NASA Ames] 🧪🥼🌎💥🌑
"The Moon probably formed ~ 4.5 billion years ago, when a young Earth was hit by a Mars-size protoplanet, causing a lot of material to get knocked off into space."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlh...
#moon #formation #simulation #NASA
"The Moon probably formed ~ 4.5 billion years ago, when a young Earth was hit by a Mars-size protoplanet, causing a lot of material to get knocked off into space."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlh...
#moon #formation #simulation #NASA
New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
YouTube video by NASA's Ames Research Center
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September 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A new take on the formation of the moon [via NASA Ames] 🧪🥼🌎💥🌑
"The Moon probably formed ~ 4.5 billion years ago, when a young Earth was hit by a Mars-size protoplanet, causing a lot of material to get knocked off into space."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlh...
#moon #formation #simulation #NASA
"The Moon probably formed ~ 4.5 billion years ago, when a young Earth was hit by a Mars-size protoplanet, causing a lot of material to get knocked off into space."
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#moon #formation #simulation #NASA
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A truly epic discovery!
It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
➡️ astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/di...
Image credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
(eso.org/public/unite...)
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
A truly epic discovery!
It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
➡️ astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/di...
Image credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
(eso.org/public/unite...)
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
September 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A truly epic discovery!
It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
➡️ astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/di...
Image credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
(eso.org/public/unite...)
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
A truly epic discovery!
It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
➡️ astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/di...
Image credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
(eso.org/public/unite...)
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
And this..is Our home:
ITSELF the shattered remains of an adventure world at the furthest end of the Universe, whose Biggest City plays host to a million and one adventures of its own, on TOP of the living adventure Blue Skies Themself is!
THIS is THE LAZURITE LEGENDARIUM.
ITSELF the shattered remains of an adventure world at the furthest end of the Universe, whose Biggest City plays host to a million and one adventures of its own, on TOP of the living adventure Blue Skies Themself is!
THIS is THE LAZURITE LEGENDARIUM.
October 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
And this..is Our home:
ITSELF the shattered remains of an adventure world at the furthest end of the Universe, whose Biggest City plays host to a million and one adventures of its own, on TOP of the living adventure Blue Skies Themself is!
THIS is THE LAZURITE LEGENDARIUM.
ITSELF the shattered remains of an adventure world at the furthest end of the Universe, whose Biggest City plays host to a million and one adventures of its own, on TOP of the living adventure Blue Skies Themself is!
THIS is THE LAZURITE LEGENDARIUM.
Today on the #arXiv:
Tortora et al. 2025, "Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra" - arxiv.org/abs/2503.15217
The Heavy Metal mission proposal would visit Kleopatra, understood as the barely-not-disrupted core of a protoplanet.
#TeamRadar approves.
Tortora et al. 2025, "Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra" - arxiv.org/abs/2503.15217
The Heavy Metal mission proposal would visit Kleopatra, understood as the barely-not-disrupted core of a protoplanet.
#TeamRadar approves.
Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra
This work presents the simulation results of the radio science experiment onboard the proposed Heavy Metal mission to the M-type asteroid (216) Kleopatra. Earth-based radiometric measurements (range a...
arxiv.org
March 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today on the #arXiv:
Tortora et al. 2025, "Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra" - arxiv.org/abs/2503.15217
The Heavy Metal mission proposal would visit Kleopatra, understood as the barely-not-disrupted core of a protoplanet.
#TeamRadar approves.
Tortora et al. 2025, "Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra" - arxiv.org/abs/2503.15217
The Heavy Metal mission proposal would visit Kleopatra, understood as the barely-not-disrupted core of a protoplanet.
#TeamRadar approves.
associated with an unseen planet, the data supports the hypothesis of a third protoplanet in this remarkable system. [6/6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11127v1]
April 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
associated with an unseen planet, the data supports the hypothesis of a third protoplanet in this remarkable system. [6/6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11127v1]
-protoplanet named Theia, this mammoth collision merged the cores of both planets and flung large pieces of debris into orbit around the Earth. This debris eventually coalesced to create the Moon. The early atmosphere of the young Earth was a reddish orange choking, toxic mixture of greenhouse-
May 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
-protoplanet named Theia, this mammoth collision merged the cores of both planets and flung large pieces of debris into orbit around the Earth. This debris eventually coalesced to create the Moon. The early atmosphere of the young Earth was a reddish orange choking, toxic mixture of greenhouse-
“… image of the WISPIT 2 system…captured by the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. The protoplanet WISPIT 2b is a small purple dot to the right of a bright white ring of dust surrounding the system's star. A fainter white ring outside of WISPIT 2b can be seen”
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
“… image of the WISPIT 2 system…captured by the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. The protoplanet WISPIT 2b is a small purple dot to the right of a bright white ring of dust surrounding the system's star. A fainter white ring outside of WISPIT 2b can be seen”
Giant Impact Hypothesis
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
#Space #PlanetaryPredestination #TheSpaceParadox #SuperSynchronicity #IrrationalConvergence
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‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
#Space #PlanetaryPredestination #TheSpaceParadox #SuperSynchronicity #IrrationalConvergence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
April 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Giant Impact Hypothesis
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
#Space #PlanetaryPredestination #TheSpaceParadox #SuperSynchronicity #IrrationalConvergence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
#Space #PlanetaryPredestination #TheSpaceParadox #SuperSynchronicity #IrrationalConvergence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
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Captivating!
Picture a forming planet sculpting spiral arms in the disk of gas and dust around its star!
Using ESO’s VLT, a research team led by Francesco Maio, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florence, has identified a candidate protoplanet, HD 135344B b, shaping the⤵️
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
Captivating!
Picture a forming planet sculpting spiral arms in the disk of gas and dust around its star!
Using ESO’s VLT, a research team led by Francesco Maio, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florence, has identified a candidate protoplanet, HD 135344B b, shaping the⤵️
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
July 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Captivating!
Picture a forming planet sculpting spiral arms in the disk of gas and dust around its star!
Using ESO’s VLT, a research team led by Francesco Maio, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florence, has identified a candidate protoplanet, HD 135344B b, shaping the⤵️
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
Captivating!
Picture a forming planet sculpting spiral arms in the disk of gas and dust around its star!
Using ESO’s VLT, a research team led by Francesco Maio, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florence, has identified a candidate protoplanet, HD 135344B b, shaping the⤵️
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
https://www.europesays.com/us/182298/
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…#us #news #usnews
https://www.europesays.com/us/182298/
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…#us #news #usnews
Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog - United States
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2 (TYC 5709-354-1).
www.europesays.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
https://www.europesays.com/us/182298/
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…#us #news #usnews
https://www.europesays.com/us/182298/
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…#us #news #usnews
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society
https://www.bytesde.com/1343671/
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society India’s First Crewed Mars Analog Launches with Protoplanet, ISRO, & The Mars …
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Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society India’s First Crewed Mars Analog Launches with Protoplanet, ISRO, & The Mars …
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society - Bytes Deutschland
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society
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September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society
https://www.bytesde.com/1343671/
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society India’s First Crewed Mars Analog Launches with Protoplanet, ISRO, & The Mars …
https://www.bytesde.com/1343671/
Indiens erste Besatzungs -Mars -Analogie startet mit Protoplanet, Isro und der Mars Society India’s First Crewed Mars Analog Launches with Protoplanet, ISRO, & The Mars …
A Christmas present to my partner: a small piece of the Erg Chech 002 meteorite.
A rock older than Earth. The oldest volcanic rock ever found. Likely once part of an ancient protoplanet orbiting the infant Sun at least 4.566 billion years ago.
A rock older than Earth. The oldest volcanic rock ever found. Likely once part of an ancient protoplanet orbiting the infant Sun at least 4.566 billion years ago.
December 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
A Christmas present to my partner: a small piece of the Erg Chech 002 meteorite.
A rock older than Earth. The oldest volcanic rock ever found. Likely once part of an ancient protoplanet orbiting the infant Sun at least 4.566 billion years ago.
A rock older than Earth. The oldest volcanic rock ever found. Likely once part of an ancient protoplanet orbiting the infant Sun at least 4.566 billion years ago.
El artículo del sistema es PDS-70 y los autores son Olga Balsalobre y J. Lillo-Box se llama : Tentative co-orbital submillimeter emission within the Lagrangian region L5 of the protoplanet PDS 70 b | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
September 21, 2023 at 3:52 PM
El artículo del sistema es PDS-70 y los autores son Olga Balsalobre y J. Lillo-Box se llama : Tentative co-orbital submillimeter emission within the Lagrangian region L5 of the protoplanet PDS 70 b | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
A Mars-sized protoplanet smacked into Earth at an oblique angle, spinning off crust and mantle and obliterating the protoplanet.
Then material coalesced, but more of the Iron ended up in Earth. That's why Earth's core is half the diameter of Earth but the Moon's core is about 15% Moon diameter.
Then material coalesced, but more of the Iron ended up in Earth. That's why Earth's core is half the diameter of Earth but the Moon's core is about 15% Moon diameter.
March 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A Mars-sized protoplanet smacked into Earth at an oblique angle, spinning off crust and mantle and obliterating the protoplanet.
Then material coalesced, but more of the Iron ended up in Earth. That's why Earth's core is half the diameter of Earth but the Moon's core is about 15% Moon diameter.
Then material coalesced, but more of the Iron ended up in Earth. That's why Earth's core is half the diameter of Earth but the Moon's core is about 15% Moon diameter.
Ein Protoplanet schafft sich Platz
Erster Nachweis eines Jungplaneten in der Staubscheiben-Lücke eines sonnenähnlichen Sterns
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#Wissen #Astronomie #Protoplanet #Jungplanet
Erster Nachweis eines Jungplaneten in der Staubscheiben-Lücke eines sonnenähnlichen Sterns
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#Wissen #Astronomie #Protoplanet #Jungplanet
Ein Protoplanet schafft sich Platz
Platz da: Astronomen haben zum ersten Mal einen jungen Exoplaneten entdeckt und fotografiert, der sich eine eigene Lücke in der mächtigen Staubscheibe
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August 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ein Protoplanet schafft sich Platz
Erster Nachweis eines Jungplaneten in der Staubscheiben-Lücke eines sonnenähnlichen Sterns
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#Wissen #Astronomie #Protoplanet #Jungplanet
Erster Nachweis eines Jungplaneten in der Staubscheiben-Lücke eines sonnenähnlichen Sterns
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#Wissen #Astronomie #Protoplanet #Jungplanet
@AFP: A graphic showing how the collision of a protoplanet into the proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago led to the formation of the Moon and two large areas in Earth's lower mantle, as suggested by new research https://t.co/263ltXO3Xo
November 1, 2023 at 6:59 PM
@AFP: A graphic showing how the collision of a protoplanet into the proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago led to the formation of the Moon and two large areas in Earth's lower mantle, as suggested by new research https://t.co/263ltXO3Xo
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Spots Newfound Protoplanet Sculpting Patterns in a Distant Star’s Disc Scientist studying a star over 440 light-years away have spotted a planet creating intricate pa...
#Astronomy #Breaking #News #Space #ERIS #ESO #European […]
[Original post on thedebrief.org]
#Astronomy #Breaking #News #Space #ERIS #ESO #European […]
[Original post on thedebrief.org]
July 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Spots Newfound Protoplanet Sculpting Patterns in a Distant Star’s Disc Scientist studying a star over 440 light-years away have spotted a planet creating intricate pa...
#Astronomy #Breaking #News #Space #ERIS #ESO #European […]
[Original post on thedebrief.org]
#Astronomy #Breaking #News #Space #ERIS #ESO #European […]
[Original post on thedebrief.org]
New Baby Planet Snapped by Magellan in a Star’s Dusty Embrace
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via HarvardA team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times…
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via HarvardA team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times…
New Baby Planet Snapped by Magellan in a Star’s Dusty Embrace
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via HarvardA team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times the mass of Jupiter and 5 million years old, which is nearly 1000 times younger than Earth.
nexttech-news.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New Baby Planet Snapped by Magellan in a Star’s Dusty Embrace
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via HarvardA team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times…
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via HarvardA team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times…
Giant Impact Hypothesis
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
February 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Giant Impact Hypothesis
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...
‘The name of the hypothesised protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia /ˈθiːə/, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-i...