Without the Moon, Earth would be a very different place. No lunar tides, one day would last for only 6 hours, raging storms and Venus would be the brightest object in the night’s sky. But what did the moon look like just after it formed 4.5 billion years ago?
Charles R
According to the Sumerian accounts as published by Zacharia Sitchen in his first book The Twelfth Planet, the new Earth and Moon were formed 4 billion years ago from a Cosmic Battle between Marduk a large planet that has an orbit similar to comets that only comes around every few thousands of years. It was also know to them as the Planet of the Crossing. The other combatant was Tiamet which at that time was between Mars and Jupiter. On one of Marduk’s journeys into the inner planets it came very close to Tiamet. One of Markuk’s moons collided with Tiamet. Out of that collision the Moon was formed. Other debris became the asteroid region and Tiamet and the moon moved eventually over time into it’s present orbit. The Twelfth Planet was written by Sitchen in I believe 1976, I read it in the early 90s. In the ensuing years modern Astronomers keep finding things and theory’s that seem to give credence to the Sumerian account, although I am sure darn few of them are even aware of Sitchen’s writings. However to is now excepted with modern astromomers that there is another planet way out there due to anomalies of the outer planet’s orbits and something large has to be causing it, There is a serious quest to find this planet going on.
Wes
I need to read up on Sitchen’s Work it has been years, thanks man
Daniel S
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