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QUESTION 21 According to the giant impact hypothesis about the formation of the Moon, why did the Earth not break apart into many pieces when the giant impact happened? cosmic impacts are always so slow, the bodies involved never break into pieces the impactor was about the size of Mars or smaller, so it ejected material from the Earth but did not break it the impactor was made of such light material (mostly gas and liquid) it could not break the Earth apart there were more than a dozen small impactors, all hitting one after another the Earth did break apart into many pieces, which then re-formed into a planet

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Giant Impact Hypothesis: According to the giant impact hypothesis about the formation of the moon, why did earth not break apart into many pieces when the giant impact happened Answer: The impactor was about the size of Mars or smaller, so it ejected material from the earth but did not break it. Explanation: According to Giant Impact hypothesis or Big Splash theory, when Theia (mother planet of moon) and the Gaia (former earth), Earth survived for its larger mass than the Theia. Theia broke into pieces and from these broken pieces moon was formed.