When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this catastrophe – the Moon. The previous assumptions about the formation of the Moon were based on an age of 4.51 billion years – that, is 85 million years earlier than the new calculations reveal. [1]
[1] https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2020/03/20200710...