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Massive projectiles striking much larger bodies create various kinds of crat
Massive projectiles striking much larger bodies create various kinds of crat
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2025-02-19
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Massive projectiles striking much larger bodies create various kinds of craters, including multi-ring basins–the largest geologic features observed on planets and moons.
In such collisions, the impactor is completely destroyed and its material is incorporated into the larger body. Collison’s between bodies of comparable size, on the other hand, have very different consequences: one or both bodies might be entirely smashed, with mass from one or both the bodies redistributed among new objects formed from the fragments. Such a titanic collision between Earth and a Mars-size impactor may have given rise to Earth’s Moon.
The Earth-Moon system has always been perplexing. Earth is the only one of the inner planets with a large satellite, the orbit of which is neither in the equatorial plane of Earth nor in the plane in which the other planets lie. The Moon’s mean density is much lower than that of Earth but is about the same as that of Earth’s mantle. This similarity in density has long prompted speculation that the Moon split away from a rapidly rotating Earth, but this idea founders on two observations. In order to spin off the Moon, Earth would have had to rotate so fast that a day would have lasted less than three hours. Science offers no plausible explanation of how it could have slowed to its current rotational rate from that speed. Moreover, the Moon’s composition, though similar to that of Earth’s mantle, is not a precise match. Theorizing a titanic collision eliminates postulating a too-rapidly spinning Earth and accounts for the Moon’s peculiar composition. In a titanic collision model, the bulk of the Moon would have formed from a combination of material from the impactor and Earth’s mantle. Most of the earthly component would have been in the form of melted or vaporized matter. The difficulty in recondensing this vapor in Earth’s orbit, and its subsequent loss to the vacuum of outer space, might account for the observed absence in lunar rocks of certain readily vaporized
compounds and elements
.
Unusual features of some other planets might also be explained by such impacts. Mercury is known to have a high density in comparison with other rocky planets. A titanic impact could have stripped away a portion of its rocky mantle, leaving behind a metallic core whose density is out of proportion with the original ratio of rock to metal. A massive, glancing blow to Venus might have given it its anomalously slow spin and reversed direction of rotation. Such conjectures are tempting, but, since no early planet was immune to titanic impacts, they could be used indiscriminately to explain away in a cavalier fashion every unusual planetary characteristic; still, we may now be beginning to discern the true role of titanic impacts in planetary history. [br] In the second paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with
选项
A、arguing in favor of a particular theory about the formation of the Earth-Moon system.
B、summarizing conventional theories about the formation of the earth-Moon system.
C、anticipating and responding to criticisms of a particular theory about the formation of the Earth-Moon system.
D、explaining why the Earth-Moon system is considered scientifically perplexing.
E、questioning an assumption underlying one theory about the formation of the Earth-Moon system.
答案
A
解析
本题属于主旨题,正确答案就是第二段3s版本,因此选项A正确。a particulartheory指大冲撞理论。B项从第二段中看不出“传统”。C项第二段中没有“预测”。D项解释为什么困惑的内容仅限于第二段二三句。E项第二段推翻的仅限“甩出去”这一理论,但是这一理论背后的假设则未提及。
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