THE MOON! Is it really, though?
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RoflSalad
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 THE MOON! Is it really, though? I remember reading a long time ago that the planet once had two moons- however, the second moon fell to the earth and was obliterated. So, I wonder, if the moon we've got now is a Forerunner creation, made to protect the planet? It would fit well, considering how AR is based on the phases of it- He knows where it's going to be, they made it like that.
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ProfessorHojo05
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Re: THE MOON! Is it really, though?
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SinisterMinister
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Re: THE MOON! Is it really, though? Unless its orbit changed suddenly and drastically, which isn't terribly likely, a moon would have been torn apart by tidal forces before it impacted the Earth, and we'd see evidence of it in the form of debris or rings around Earth's Roche limit. I've never heard of this second-moon theory, but I have heard of the one ProfessorHojo05 mentioned, as well as stranger and much less credible ones about Mars and Earth being formed from the same proto-planet, or Venus formerly being the core of a comet. 
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Re: THE MOON! Is it really, though? No. The planet used to have NO moons. That is until a giant asteroid came crashing(the scar is speculated to be pacific ocean) and the rock blasted out became the moon. NOT 2 moons. Wikipedia says NO.
That is all.
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SinisterMinister
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uncle_trubble
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Re: THE MOON! Is it really, though? This is from a lecture I attended at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (unfortunately I can't find an exact transcript, but I have notes)
The Earth was originally much smaller, but at some point early on, a massive planetoid, close to the size of Mars, impacted. Both were destroyed, but eventually most of the matter was pulled together and formed the present-day Earth. The remainder of the matter formed the moon.
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uncle_trubble
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Re: THE MOON! Is it really, though? Wait, which map is a forerunner installation in a vacuum?
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