Post by sherlew99 on Jan 29, 2016 16:57:54 GMT -6 YahooThe Moon Was Created When Earth Collided Head-On With A Young Planet Called ‘Theia’Rob Waugh's Yahoo Blog01-28-16Our moon is the debris formed in a violent, head-on collision between our Earth and a ‘planetary embryo’ called Theia, scientists say.The massive crash took place 4.5 billion years go - just 100 million years after the Earth formed. Click here for the rest of the article.