Traces of planet collision found

[steven johnson]

Finally evidence of the same planet and moon forming processes in other planetary systems that were hypothesized to have occurred 4-5 billion years ago in the solar system.

A Nasa space telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star.

Astronomers say the cosmic smash-up is similar to the one that formed our Moon some four billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth.

In this case, two rocky bodies are thought to have slammed into one another in the last few thousand years.

"This is a really rare and short-lived event, critical in the formation of Earth-like planets and moons. We're lucky to have witnessed one not long after it happened."

Traces of planet collision found

[damntexdem]

1. Did they get the planets' plate numbers?

I bet one or both had been drinking.

;-)