Look into the sky at night, what is the brightest thing in the sky? Hopefully you said the moon. The moon has been important parts of my ancient cultures, it is after all the brightest thing in the sky and we many people need it for light during the night. Many made up folk tales of how it came to be, unfortunately none of them were quite right, but even scientists struggled and debated for years where it came form. So where did it come from?
Well after all of that debating finally evidence was given that in fact the moon used to be part of the earth. Some millions of years ago earth and another smaller planet collided. This caused a lot of turbulence and problems in the earth, as you could imagine. The temperature of the earth greatly rose and with a large chunk was chipped off. This happened because the two didn't collide head on, it was more of a glancing blow. So the piece finally flew off but didn't float off into space because it was trapped by our planet's gravitational pull. So it was that is how it came to be, so after being bombarded by numerous meteorites, because it has no atmosphere, giving us the cheesy moon we know and love today.
Well after all of that debating finally evidence was given that in fact the moon used to be part of the earth. Some millions of years ago earth and another smaller planet collided. This caused a lot of turbulence and problems in the earth, as you could imagine. The temperature of the earth greatly rose and with a large chunk was chipped off. This happened because the two didn't collide head on, it was more of a glancing blow. So the piece finally flew off but didn't float off into space because it was trapped by our planet's gravitational pull. So it was that is how it came to be, so after being bombarded by numerous meteorites, because it has no atmosphere, giving us the cheesy moon we know and love today.
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