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Synestia
Artwork of a synestia. This is a hypothetical torus
of molten rock that is believed to form when two similarly sized rocky bodies collide
- one may have arisen when the Earth was struck by a Mars-sized world called Theia,
inside of which the Moon was...
Keywords:
... llison, Earth, formation, molten, Moon, synestia, Theia ...
Planet Collision
... ween two planets. The collision caused the two bodies to merge into a giant,
donut-shaped cloud of hat gas and dust called a synestia (background). Debris from the impact is seen in
the foreground. ...
Keywords:
... r, planets, press release, rocky, star, synestia, Warwick University ...