The Massive Remnants of an Alien World Are Hidden Near the Earth's Core, Study Proposes [Vice, March 2021]

Title:

The Massive Remnants of an Alien World Are Hidden Near the Earth's Core, Study Proposes

 

Author:

Becky Ferreira

 

Published:

Vice, 25 March 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp7k8/the-massive-remnants-of-an-alien-world-are-hidden-near-the-earths-core-study-proposes

 

From the article:

Two gigantic chunks of material lurking deep under the surface of Earth might be remnants of an alien world called Theia that violently collided with our infant planet in an ancient impact that created the Moon.   

 

That sentence may sound like the synopsis for a sci-fi epic, but it’s actually a new hypothesis proposed by scientists in a presentation at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2021, which was held virtually last week.