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THE CAPTURE OF THE MOON BY THE EARTH AROUND 40,000 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT FROM THE GEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
A revaluation of the important of the climatic variations on the Earth in the last 120,000 years (Quaternary palaeoclimatological data) led us to render evident a special geodynamic moment around 40,000-39,000 years (ka) before present (BP). We have correlated this moment with a severe change of the precessional year duration caused by a modification of the rotational axis position under the influence of a cosmic body. We consider this cosmic event to be the capture of the Moon (by the Earth), former first planet of the Solar System. This confirms Urey’s hypothesis about the capture of the Moon in a recent geological epoch and the mythical traditions from ancient times about the appearance of the Moon in the sky as well. The possible deglaciation of the northern lands at 40 ka BP discovered by Scandinavian scientists can be explained through the same phenomenon which implies a change in the latitude. Also, at 40 ka BP, the archaeological perspective shows a crisis in the prehistoric human populations. All these made us embrace the hypothesis on the planetary origin of the Moon, taking into account the geochemical data from the Selenian samples which seem to exclude the terrestrial origin of our satellite. Accepting the capture as a natural phenomenon inside the Solar System makes us imagine the existence in the past of a series of outer telluric planets – with Pluto and its moon, Charon, as the last survivors – which were “decimated” through the capture by the gas giants. A dark vision of the future shows us all the telluric planets of the Solar System (Terra inclusively) transformed in satellites of the same giant planets.
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