The Larousse Guide to Astronomy dates back to 1978, but Mars hasn't changed much since then, even though our awareness of it has. In that Guide, it talks about the mean density of Mars being "considerably lower than the other three terrestrial planets but similar to the Moon's." It also says, "A major tectonic event has rent the surface just south of the equator and produced a 5,000 Km long canyon up to 140 Km wide and nearly 5 Km deep." (see above)
That 'crack' is about 5,000 Km long, and if we opened that up into a circular hole, and considering that our Moon is about 10,000 Km in circumference, then
what if our Moon came out of Mars back when it was hit by that meteoriod of between 150 and 200 Km in diameter which they claim punctured its crust, and
very likely created a horrendous explosion within its core? Mars and our Moon are more alike than any of the other terrestrial planets, Mars has a scar on its surface almost the right size to have allowed the ejection of the Moon, and we
are wondering "what if?".....
I still think that anything as big a 150 to 200 Km in diameter hitting Mars and
puncturing its crust would have to cause an immense explosion, perhaps powerful enough to have inflated the planet momentarily, causing its outer shell or most of it to be thrown off into space, and perhaps that impact also blew part of the molten core material out through this 'crack' or 'canyon' into space, thus
forming what may now be our Moon. Why would I think so? Because there is a reason for everything if we can find it, and so far, the explanations that have been offered just don't quite do it.
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