THE VIDEO SHELF · moon formation
New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
A NASA and Durham University supercomputer simulation suggesting the Moon may have formed within hours of a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body. It is one of the highest-resolution giant-impact simulations run.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it as a cool visualization whenever Theia and Moon formation come up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- NASA's Ames Research Center
- Topic
- moon formation
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If you haven't seen it yet, the simulation released last year of the hypothesized Earth-Theia moon formation is really cool: [VIDEO]
thaumaturgy on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth's basal mantle anomaliesIt's not my area, but this video looks interesting and is produced by NASA " New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin " (October 2022) [VIDEO]
gus_massa on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Remnants of Theia, an ancient plant that collided with the Earth
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