Did the impact of the moon against earth, create the pacific ocean?

Question

i have been staring at a close up picture of the moon for some while... if the moon was originally an asteroid that impacted earth.. did it wipe out the high lands (higher then sea level) to create the expanse we know as the Pacific?

i am also wondering if the moon is partly made up of all the countries that should be where the pacific ocean is today.

I understand that allah was a moon god, Is there any mention of how the moon came about in the Koran?

Thanks for all the "God" answers, but this does cut it as even I KNOW who created god and that was MAN ! god (and allah) are a concept of man. THE MOON IS A REAL THING WE CAN SEE IN THE SKY.... Get the difference? I was looking for credible scientific facts... not fairy tales... but thanks anyway.

An excellent answer from Sciencenut (looking good for 10 so far!) as ever this has spawned another question, which i have posted separetly "How the Pacific Basin Form ?"

Answer 1

You are on to something there....but where did the Atlantic and Indian and other oceans come from.

I would like to hear your answer because I think you have opened a dangerous can of exciting worms...worms of knowledge!

Answer 2

The origin of the Moon is a very interesting subject. For many, many decades there was really no satisfactory scientific explanation for the origin of the Moon. Every possible theory had an enormous flaw, causing that particular theory to have to be thrown out. This lead some scientists to be forced to conclude that the Moon really doesn't exist. But then a large brainstorming conference was held, and it became clear that 1) the Moon really does exist, and 2) the Moon was likely formed by a large planet sized object the size of Mars or slightly larger hitting the Earth at an oblique angle, causing much of the Earth's crust and outer mantle to be thrown out into Earth orbit, with some of it coalescing to form the Moon. The remaining outer Earth crust became the continents, which have floated aimlessly around ever since, sometimes combining into one large land mass (pangea &/or gondwana) or fracturing into the various separate continents, as is essentially the case today. This has lead some to call the Moon the "8th continent" (after Asia, Africa, N. America, S.America, Antactica, Europe, and Australia). However, it is wrong to say that the Pacific Ocean basin per se was formed by the loss of the Moon, since the Pacific sea floor is only 0-150 million years old, i.e. way too young to be as old as the Moon, as one would expect if they shared a common origin.

Answer 3

No. The Moon was created about 4500000000 years ago when some large object (about the size of Mars) collided with the then-slightly-smaller Earth. The Moon condensed out of the debris flung into orbit by this impact. The modern Pacific Ocean has arisen after billions of years of continental drift; the land masses and ocean areas are not the same as they were at the time the Moon was formed.

Even if the Moon DID scrape by the Earth, the chances that it would come just close enough to wipe off a few mountains and yet not close enough to gouge an enormous, glowing pit out of the Earth's surface are very small, and made much smaller still by the fact that it would have to have followed the curve of the Earth's surface. Also, the deepest place in the Pacific is the Challenger Deep (it is also the deepest place on the entire Earth), which is not close to the center of the ocean as would be suggested by your scenario.

Answer 4

"greeny" is on the right track - nearly unaminous among scientists that the moon came from a collision of a large object with earth in a 'glancing blow'. [PLEASE read a BOOK sometime]

MY view -
If anything, the reason for the large singular landmass {Pangea I think they call it} and a deep hole [Pacific Ocean] is that the earth did not completely re-molten [liquify] after the collision, but that the spinning, and gravitational attraction, of the 2 bodies pulled the earth into a lop-sided shape. As the moon spiraled outward the earth's own gravity started pulling it back into a 'round' shape, but has not yet completed that transition - hence the Pacific, and the continental drift of the land masses, slowly making the planet more round.

And THROW OUT ANY religious 'explanations' - they were done in a time before SCIENCE, with people GUESSING how things came about.

Answer 5

That thought became into disproved an prolonged time in the past. The composition of the moon isn't consistent with that concept. Plate tectonics point out that the Pacific Ring of hearth did no longer even exist whilst the moon became into formed approximately 4 billion years in the past.

Answer 6

I don't know about the Koraan, but I think there is reference in the Bible to it. God created the Moon and the Sun and the Stars. and God Created the Oceans and the dry land and everything else on the earth. God created it all. Read the Bible it will answer your questions.

Answer 7

The moon used to be a part of the earth. It was torn away due to an impact with another body and became our satellite a long time ago.

Answer 8

The moon is God... one day he's gonna punish us for sticking a US Flag into his A$$........

Answer 9

where the hell did you hear that? i dont think the moon every touched earth. asteroid dont bounce off the planet, they smash INTO the planet and kablooey.

Answer 10

you are crazy man....... continental drift!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Contdrift.shtml