The Earth is thought to have been formed when gravity slowly gathered gas and dust together into clumps that became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals. Earth's rocky core formed first, with heavy elements colliding and binding together. Dense material sank to the center, while the lighter material created the crust. The planet's magnetic field probably formed around this time.
The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Big Splash, or the Theia Impact suggests that the Moon formed out of the debris left over from a collision between Earth and an astronomical body the size of Mars, approximately 4.5 billion years ago.
Mineral Moe (Mimoe) project is an outreach project to spread the love of Earth Science to the public.
At first, the series started as a fun pastime for me to learn about minerals as a part of the Mineralogy module; by imagining the minerals as characters with specific traits similar with their real world counterpart. I started to draw the characters, created their personalities and was having fun imagining their story inside my head. As time went on, I felt like I should give this project a go hoping that it might help people to know and love minerals more.
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