The Moon Before Time: Pre-Lunar Chronologies and Cosmology
The Enigma of the Non-Existent Moon The scientific consensus regarding lunar origin places its formation in the earliest epochs of the solar system. The currently favored model, the Giant-Impact Hypothesis (sometimes called the Theia Impact), posits that the Moon formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago in the early Hadean eon, following a catastrophic collision between … Read more