Wizard And Muggle Astronomers: The Origin Of The Moon

The moon is by far the biggest and most easily recognizable object in earth’s atmosphere that can be perceived by the naked eye on a cloudless night. It is hypothesized that it came into existence nearly 4.5 billion years ago, from residual debris after a planetary body collided with earth. Although, considered the runner-up to the sun as the second brightest object in the sky, its illumination is deceitful, insomuch as the moon is not a source of light, but instead reflects the sun’s illumination from the half of the moon that is in direct alignment with the sun at that time. More readily identified as a satellite of the earth rather than as a planet itself or even a star, it has a diameter a quarter of the size of earth’s size and it

There are many different theories about how the moon was formed. People believe different things. I believe one is more reliable than all the others. I think the Big impact theory is the most trustworthy. The Big Impact theory has many different pieces of evidence behind it. The other ones i could barely find any.

In 1975, two scientists by the name of Dr. William K. Hartmann and Dr. Donald R. Davis, came up with a groundbreaking new theory on how the moon was created. Their theory stated “At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth 's growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit around the Earth and aggregated into the moon” (Hartmann & Herres 1). This theory is known as the Giant Impact Theory and is the accepted theory in the scientific community of how the moon was created. Even though this theory is accepted by most, there are still some people who don’t hold this theory to be true. I agree with Davis and Hartmann’s Giant Impact Theory that a great collision occurred and created the moon. The Giant Impact Theory is supported by the lack of iron on the moon, the moon rocks from the Apollo missions, and its acceptance in the scientific community.

Section A: Astronomy means to me about the sky and stars and the planets that has many mystery in it. There are little difference between muggle and wizard astronomy. Wizard astronomy has more story that some wizard believe more then muggle story because of history of magic and the centaurs viewers of the sky. muggle astronomy is a lot of science and technology like rockets and giant telescopes muggle has send many astronauts outer space and on many planets unlike wizards. Section B Mercury: Mercury is the smallest planet that is rocky and has allot of craters on its surface.

The Giant Impact theory is one of the most best described theory of the formation of the moon. The theory is very accurate and is best fit for how the moon was formed. The Giant impact theory is the theory that is more logically correct because of a few reasons; one is the theory has more scientific evidence collected for it than other theories, this theory is more logical in science and mathematics, and this theory is more in detail on the forming of the moon. The Giant Impact theory should be the number one theory for the formation of the moon in science.

The currently favored theory about how the Moon formed is called the Impact Theory. It states that billions of years ago, a Mars-sized object collided with Earth, which was still molten. This object is named Theia, after the Titaness in Greek and Roman myth who is the mother of the deities of the sun, the moon, and the dawn (Helios/Sol, Selene/Luna, and Eos/Aurora, respectively). Pieces of Earth and of Theia were ejected into outer space together, combining to form what would become Earth’s only natural satellite.

looks at one theory of how the moon formed which was through a massive collision of Earth with a Mars-sized planetesimal created debris that combined to form the moon some 50,000 years after Earth formed.

The exact origins of the moon are unknown however there are many plausible theories. The most widely accepted theory is known as the giant impact hypothesis. This suggests that the moon was created during a collision between a young Earth and a Mars sized object over four billion years ago. As the two bodies collided they fused whilst simultaneously ejecting debris which combined and formed the moon as we know it.

Despite the theory of how the moon was formed from a single impact with Earth, samples taken from the moon and lunar meteorites have illustrated that the Earth and the Moon possess compositions that are fairly analogous. Also another contradicting piece is that there are some issues in honing the impact to give it the same angular momentum of Earth’s specific moon system. Though there are solutions to both these contradictions, neither answers every question. For example, one can theorize that the impactor itself had a similar make-up to Earth’s, but that itself is statically unlikely. For the second hypothesis, some scientists have argued that this process would have taken a long time and that this contradicts a few theories on when the moon was formed. New research this year (January 11th 2017 in Science Advances to be exact) helps build on the idea that the moon came together at a faster pace and formed about 4.51 billion years ago. Aside from when and how the moon was formed, findings suggest that water may have been in abundance on the moon during its formation and played a key part in how it was

Not that many people know how our moon’s craters were created, some scientists say there were asteroids that had hit the newly created satellite. And those asteroids formed circular holes on the surface of this new satellite. After the new satellite was created it was being pulled around a planet which we know as our home planet Earth. Have you ever wondered about how the craters on the moon were created. Like that rabbit that everybody sees but yet I can't!There are many different types of hypothesis on how the moon's craters . But today I will try to recreate how the moon’s craters were created or formed. You're probably saying as you read this “Didn't he say there are many different hypothesis on how the moon’s craters were created ?” Yes

Ultimately, scientists currently believe the giant-impact hypothesis explains the formation of the Moon, though more research into the topic is being

A) For me, Astronomy means the study of not just the universe, but the unknown. There is always stuff to be learnt, things to be taught, and surprising subjects that affect our everyday lives, magic and non-magic alike. Even though some things affect us in the same way, our subjects of Astronomy are quite different. Muggle Astronomy focuses on what is beyond our planet Earth. They're interested in what's out there, in the unfamiliar. They want to discover more planets, galaxies, dimensions, and the fact if we really are ‘alone’. Wizard Astronomy focuses on the outer things that affect our planet Earth, like how the moon affects our magic and how werewolves change in the full moon. We are very tuned to how it affects our lives.

First off the Moon is known to be tremendously huge in the human eye, yet it is only a quarter (3470 km) sized of the Earth. The Moon is the fifth largest moon and is the closest astronomical object to the Earth itself (PSCI 1054, Class Lecture, Motion). The Earth is recognized to have life on it and has many physical and chemical differences than the moon does. It is a known fact that the Earth orbits the sun and the Moon orbits the Earth. Chemical and physical changes can get confusing. For example when a person eats chocolate, digestion is a form of chemical change, but when the person chews it and breaks it down a physical change is at stake. The Moon and the Earth are both dramatically different in ways that may be explained due to research.

Despite the importance of our moon, us humans have long questioned how it evolved. For centuries, the moon has hid the secrets of its beginnings. There are many ideas regarding the origins of our super-sized moon, but they all began around the same time—roughly 4.6 billion years ago. Ultimately, this search for clues as to the origins of the Earth’s moon have led to two different theories. One idea is simply that the moon is wandering around in our solar system, and it captured it. According to this theory, the early moon passed a little too close to the Earth, and our planet’s immense gravity captured a hold of him. However, if the moon was really a “captured” planet, scientists expected that its constituents will be different from the Earth. In essence, if the moon came from another place in the solar system, scientists would expect it to be made of different material. In the 1970’s, Apollo astronauts collected samples of some of the moons’ rocks and brought them back for comparison. The results shocked the scientific world. What they found is that the composition of the moon was almost exactly the same as the composition of the crust of

The Earth and Moon do have some similarities and differences that are explained by this theory. The Moon, for example, does not have heavy materials like Earth does. One example of a heavy material on Earth is the iron core. Earth has one, and the Moon does not. This is explained by the timing of the impact. If the Moon hit the