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Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus

Posted by kdawson on from the brothers-under-the-skin dept.

goran72 sends along a report on a radical new theory of planet formation that suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus. The theory has testable predictions — for example that the compositions of the rocky inner planets should be more similar than the current theory of planet formation would have them.

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  1. Oh great! A planetary scandal! by erroneus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Venus and Earth are not even married! And now they are trying to say that Mars and Mercury are illegitimate children of a lesbian union of planets?!

    NO! I will not accept it! GOD DID IT! Things are the way they are because God did it that way and need no further explanation!

  2. Where do planets come from? by faloi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometimes when a mommy planet and a daddy planet love each other very much...

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  3. Re:FP by Kemanorel · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. Not really.

    You missed it by 3 minutes.

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  4. Re:Book to be written by 4D6963 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mars is from Earth, Mercury is from Venus.

    ...and methane is from Uranus.

    Sorry..

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