 The Day the Earth Exploded
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Conundrum
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Wed Jul 10 2013, 08:11AM
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Sounds plausible, back of the envelope calculations show that a nuclear explosion of the magnitude suggested would account for a lot of the Moon's features and potentially Mars as well.
For all we know Deimos and Phobos could have been produced when Mars suffered a similar fate, accounting for the surface morphology.
This has massive implications for SETI, if planets larger than a certain size can't produce moons then those can be basically written off as potential sites for complex life due to the geological instability and likelihood of tidal locking.
Discuss.
-A
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