Carbon on the Moon Hints That It Didn’t Form Like We Thought | SciShow News

The idea that the Moon is a blown-off chunk of the Earth is known as the giant impact hypothesis - but the presence of carbon on the Moon throws this hypothesis into question. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Moon: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaba1050 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242725-the-moon-is-emitting-carbon-raising-questions-about-how-it-was-formed/ https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/apollo-results/ https://history.nasa.gov/EP-177/ch2-2-1.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236797-oxygen-in-lunar-rocks-suggests-the-moon-formed-in-huge-collision/ https://www.space.com/26142-moon-formation-giant-impact-theory-support.html https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-made-the-moon-new-ideas-try-to-rescue-a-troubled-theory-20170802/ https://theconversation.com/how-the-moon-formed-new-research-133204 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/kaguya/in-depth/ https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/water-discovered-in-apollo-moon-rocks-likely-came-from-comets/ Light Sails: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302836 https://earthsky.org/space/alpha-centauri-travel-time https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/index.html https://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/ https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/ikaros https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/21/national/science-health/huge-sail-will-power-jaxa-mission-trojan-asteroids-back/ Image Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10930 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_concept_of_collision_at_HD_172555.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simple_model.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_Olivine_Basalt_15555_from_Apollo_15_in_National_Museum_of_Natural_History.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Lunar_Sample_15498.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Lunar_Sample_60015.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selene.gif https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/index.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IKAROS_solar_sail.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LightSail_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IKAROS_IAC_2010.jpg https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160005683 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relativity_of_Simultaneity_Animation.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nano_Sail_D.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_line2.svg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/231029.php