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An interesting thought just popped into mind.
The current going theory regarding the origin of the Moon appears to be the Orpheus theory, in which a planetoid nearly the size of the Earth at the time, impacted Earth and caused a ring of debris that later formed the Moon. What just popped into mind is this question: Wouldn't such an extreme collision be likely to substantially purturb the Earth's orbit into something substantially non-circular? Even if it wasn't circular before, it seems unlikely that that impact would produce such a nearly-circular orbit like we have now. Wouldn't it seem more likely that it accreded into a nearly-circular orbit and stayed there? Just a thought... |
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