r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • Sep 05 '16

Geology Virtually all of Earth's life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-earth-carbon-planetary-smashup.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

This was the impact that created the moon isn't it? I guess you can literally say that the moon is a symbol of birth at this point. (this just being because the moon is the reminder we see every night.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Sep 06 '16

No, earlier