Did the moon really splinter off of the Earth due to a collision with Venus?

Question

To my baby bumblebee-challenged friend:

Did I ever mention you were a fecking genius? No? Oh, okay then.

Answer 1

Moon is Venus... DUH!

Or have you not noticed my poetry this week?
Penfold is puking, Durden is laughing his asss off... And here you are clueless. Do I need to write another mooshy songet for Moonbelle?

Answer 2

No, but the composition of rocks returned from the Moon by Soviet Union unmanned probes and by Apollo astronauts support the idea that the Earth was struck, very early on, by a Mars-sized object that had formed in about the same orbit as the proto-Earth. This melted both bodies pretty much and some of the material that splashed off, the less dense material, formed the Moon. Most of the iron and nickel did not get very far and returned to the present position of the Earth, forming the core. It appears that if the Moon has a iron - nickel core, (it seems that it does) it is quite small and is now solid.

This theory is not accepted by all scientists involved in studies of the very early Earth but at present it is the strongest one. See paragraph 8.01.2.2 of this paper -

http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/eastrauss/Courses/MicrobEcol/Papers/Nisbet%20and%20Fowler%202003.pdf

Answer 3

Don't you know nuffink. The moon was formed when a huge bottle of milk left over from the big bang went sour and turned into cheese. If Venus was anything to do with it it would be a toasted cheeseball floating in space whereas it is in fact covered in melted chocolate which suggests a collision with mars

Answer 4

No it didn't. The most common idea is that when the earth was forming a huge asteroid hit the planet off center and tore off a big chunk that eventually created the moon. Others think the moon was an asteroid that was captured by Earths gravity. No one knows for absolute certainty.

Answer 5

best theory available now points to Earth capturing the Moon. Even though this is by no means certain. What would point to such an event is that orbital and rotational periods of Moon are equal (thus we can only see one side of it). Equalization of rotational/orbital periods occurs due to tidal forces exerted by the larger object in the smaller and when the size difference between them is not very large. The Moon-Earth can indeed be called a dual planet system...
Sheesh Change, you could have figured it out using basic Newtonian physics... Wasssamatter you ? Oxygen deprivation again ?

Now, let me clue you in on how it really happened. Stooge was Y!Mooned by Moon and was so taken by that sight he started writing poetry (although I could debate anybody as to whether it can be called that) of such gravitational power she was captured by him... We don't see much of his poetic output (pun intended) lately, as his keyboard needs a quick dip in SpermOff(TM) to function properly again. He is now reduced to grinding his organ and howling at the Moon.

hope that helped...

Answer 6

No, it was a Mars sized object called Theia, this object is still considered hypothetical though.

Just search Wikipedia for "Giant Impact Hypothesis".

It has nothing to do with Venus.

Answer 7

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh Death From Above stole my answer, word for word. Dang. Newton be damned, it was Stephen Hawkins who really gave us the mathematics involved in subatomic particles using the particle accelerator at the Fermi Labs in Batavia Illinois

Answer 8

NO,..

the moon, sun and the stars were CREATED on the fourth day,..so that makes the earth four days older,..

and if the big bangers were so correct with their not so correct theory of evolution, would not, from this big bang, everything have something from the original big bang in its makeup, ie all planets would have similar elements in the land mass,..oh yeah not all planets have land mass, how about hydrogen and helium atmospheres, wait that is what the sun is made of,..orbits should be similar, hold on some moons have opposite orbits,..

who came up with this evolution crap, wait it evolved from human fecal material excreted from some meatball's dormant brain matter,..

and why is it that we are 98% similar to a monkey than to our own parents,..and are jellyfish and watermelons related,..

i e a e,..
unificationist,..

Answer 9

No. Venus was already forming in more-or-less its present orbit. It was a "Mars-sized object", not Mars itself. This is only a theory. It isn't known for certain.

Answer 10

No ... the moon was formed when a big rock smacked into Uranus