{"id":2970,"date":"2021-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2021-09-24T02:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:56:43","slug":"the-moon-may-be-hiding-more-evidence-of-bombardment-during-its-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/the-moon-may-be-hiding-more-evidence-of-bombardment-during-its-early-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon May Be Hiding More Evidence of Bombardment During Its Early Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Solar System may look peaceful now, but it wasn\u2019t always this way. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it was rife with moving material. The solar nebula that would eventually form our Sun and everything else in its vicinity would start to collapse in on itself due to its own collective gravity. Likewise, smaller clumps of material like dirt and gas would start sticking together. These would likely number in the millions; bigger clumps\u2014now planetesimals<\/em>\u2014would attract even more clumps, growing bigger as a consequence. Of those bigger clumps, eight lucky ones would grow so large that they would be designated a name by creatures who would eventually evolve in the third one from the Sun: \u201cplanets.\u201d Others would fail to gain its place revolving around the Sun, and would instead be captured by a nearby planet\u2014these would be the moons revolving around planets, including our very own. Those that failed to clump together to a larger size would remain scattered throughout the Solar System, becoming what we know as meteorites and comets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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