· Did the Moon or planets form in a manner similar to that of Earth?

Question

· Did the Moon or planets form in a manner similar to that of Earth?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Yes. Physics 101 applies to all of the planets not just our own! only differences would be that some planets are solid rock and some are gas but that's slightly off topic i think...

Answer 3

The other planets formed in the same way as the Earth. But the Moon is thought to have been formed by a large asteroid hitting the earth and knocking a big lump off it. This happened a long time ago when there were many such asteroids wandering around the solar system.

Answer 4

  The moon is said to have been a result of a collision with the earth and a meteor but I an skeptical and believe it evolved like the other planets and moons.

Answer 5

It is unlikely that the moon formed in the same way as earth, i.e., as a rocky core in orbit around the juvenile sun, accreting material from debris in the young solar system. A more likely scenario is the moon as a by-product of an impact between early earth (after the core had formed, but before earth had fully accreted) and a Mars-sized rocky body.

Planets between the sun and the asteroid belt are all composed largely of silicate rocks. That is, most of their mass consists of elements and compounds that vaporize at "very high" temperatures. All such terrestrial planets formed in similar ways, leading to similar vertical layers within them (typically core, mantle, and crust). But the material that accreted to make them varied somewhat, possibly in narrow bands, with distance from the young sun. A good example is the difference in the K/Th mass fraction ratio as well as in the mass fraction of Fe between Earth and Mars.