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Earth Contains Buried Chunks Of Alien World ‘millions Of Times Larger Than Everest : Study
Arizona State University scientists detected huge blobs of rock, metal and ancient fragments underneath Earth “millions of times larger than Mount Everest.
Scientists have discovered debris of an ancient protoplanet called Theia that likely crashed into the Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. The crash generated shrapnel into space that likely led to the formation Moon. Arizona State University scientists have now found huge blobs of rock and metal, and ancient fragments which they described were “millions of times larger than Mount Everest in terms of volume . In new research published in the journal Nature on April 3, scientists revealed that pieces 621 miles tall and two to three times as wide, interpreted as subducted slabs, were discovered in southern Asia and the circum-Pacific s lower mantle transition zone. Researchers employed the complex global mantle convec