{"id":7325,"date":"2016-01-29T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:39:39","slug":"earth-2x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/29\/earth-2x\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth 2x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/space\/12129549\/Earth-is-actually-two-planets-scientists-conclude.html\" target=\"_blank\">from \u00a0The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Earth is actually two planets, scientists conclude<\/h1>\n<p><em>The early Earth was mixed with a baby planet called Theia following a head on collision 4.5 billion years ago, scientists have found<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <a title=\"Sarah Knapton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/sarah-knapton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Sarah Knapton<\/a>, Science Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fwl_JBQtH9o\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earth is actually made up from two planets which came together in a head-on collision that was so violent it formed the Moon, scientists have concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Initially it was believed that the Moon was created when a smaller planet called Theia grazed the Earth and broke up, sending a smaller chunk into space where it was caught in Earth\u2019s gravity.<\/p>\n<p>But if that was the case the Moon would have a different chemical composition to the Earth, because it would be made up, predominantly, of Theia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>However, after studying Moon rocks brought back by astronauts on the Apollo missions, scientists at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/moon-was-produced-by-a-head-on-collision-between-earth-and-a-forming-planet\" target=\"_blank\">University of California<\/a> have found that their oxygen isotopes are the same as on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>It means that the collision between Their and the early Earth was so violent that the two planets effectively melded together to form a new planet, a chunk of which was knocked off to form the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/space\/12129549\/Earth-is-actually-two-planets-scientists-conclude.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from \u00a0The Telegraph Earth is actually two planets, scientists conclude The early Earth was mixed with a baby planet called Theia following a head on collision 4.5 billion years ago, scientists have found By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor Earth is actually made up from two planets which came together in a head-on collision that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}