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Carbon emissions on the moon put theory of moon birth in doubt
- ars 7y agoActual carbon, or climate change carbon AKA co2? Because if they mean actual carbon, I don't understand why they think it would not survive high heat - carbon is quite refractory.
- chrisco255 7y agoI recently learned that the moon has its own molten iron core, like Earth. It makes me wonder if carbon emissions on the moon could be related to subsurface volcanism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Moon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Mo...
- autokad 7y ago> "But now, it appears that there is ancient carbon embedded in the moon's surface, suggesting some changes may have to be made to the theory of the moon's birth." frustrating they didn't go on to explain what those changes might be.
- sunstone 7y agoHas Venus been definitely ruled out as the body that hit earth and created the moon? It certainly has some odd characteristics.