Talk:Synestia

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Spinning/Tumbling Synestia Twin Moon Hypothesis
I propose that the 50mya giant impact event is also relevant...it uplifted the Himalayas, our youngest mountain chain.. I propose this North Polar Basin impact event ultimately increased tide raising forces so that vertical mixing of nutrients created a rich new plankton based food chain that crossed the entire globe... the transition of the dinosaur age to the mammalian age... I propose that a tumbling synestia would create two moons, each in orbit about the other.. analagous to Pluto and Charon.... I propose that our sister moon was captured by the Earth around 50mya and led to the low speed Arctic Impact Event shortly afterwards..86.174.244.113 (talk) 07:40, 2 April 2018 (UTC)AL


 * Wikipedia is not a platform for presenting original research. Nor for presenting original hypotheses, for that matter. &mdash;Undomelin (talk) 07:47, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

According to recent studies? when, who, where
The paragraph that starts "According to recent studies..." has the citation to the study, but also should show by who or where, and when. It also should mention that the cited paper states that the giant impact hypothesis remains the leading theory for lunar origin, see below from the abstract:

"Abstract The giant impact hypothesis remains the leading theory for lunar origin. However, current models struggle to explain the Moon's composition and isotopic similarity with Earth. Here we present a new lunar origin model. "

I will leave it to someone else to add the details, I am not an expert on this, I came to this page after watching the TED video of Sarah T Stewart "Where did the Moon come from: a new theory" and wanted to know more about a synestia. I see she has a Wikipedia page - Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay - but not sure if the new theory should be attributed to her alone or also the other author cited in the paper, and when, or if it was funded, etc. Ray3055 (talk) 20:08, 16 March 2019 (UTC)