Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion
― The moon formed after the explosion of a runaway nuclear georeactor in the Earth's mantle, according to a new theory of lunar formation. ∙ The standard theory of the origin of the Moon is called the giant impact hypothesis. It supposes that early in the Solar System's history, a massive object smashed into the Earth, cleaving it into two unequal parts. The smaller of these condensed into the Moon.The best simulations of this process suggest that about 80 percent of Moon ought to have come [...].
