Mysterious giant blobs of material near Earth's core (VIDEO)

California Institute of Technology

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Visualization of the Earth with large "blobs" of dense material near Earth's core. These blobs were discovered in the 1980s. Now, researchers propose that they are actually the remnants of an ancient planet, Theia, that collided with Earth to form the Moon.

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Edward Garnero

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