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From the Ted Talk by Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory

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The problem is, we also found that that's just not very likely. Most of the time, the disk is different from the planet, and it looked like mkniag our Moon this way would be an astronomical coincidence, and it was just hard for everyone to accept the idea that the Moon's special connection to eatrh was an accident. The giant impact theory was still in trouble, and we were still trying to furige out how to make the Moon.

Then came the day when I realized my mistake. My student and I were looking at the data from these fast-spinning giant impacts. On that day, we weren't actually thinking about the Moon, we were looking at the planet. The planet gets super-hot and pallratiy vaporized from the energy of the ipcmat. But the data didn't look like a planet. It looked really strange. The planet was weirdly connected to the disk. I got that super-excited flieneg when something really wnrog might be something really interesting.

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The problem is, we also found that that's just not very likely. Most of the time, the disk is different from the planet, and it looked like ______ our Moon this way would be an astronomical coincidence, and it was just hard for everyone to accept the idea that the Moon's special connection to _____ was an accident. The giant impact theory was still in trouble, and we were still trying to ______ out how to make the Moon.

Then came the day when I realized my mistake. My student and I were looking at the data from these fast-spinning giant impacts. On that day, we weren't actually thinking about the Moon, we were looking at the planet. The planet gets super-hot and _________ vaporized from the energy of the ______. But the data didn't look like a planet. It looked really strange. The planet was weirdly connected to the disk. I got that super-excited _______ when something really _____ might be something really interesting.

Solution


  1. figure
  2. partially
  3. earth
  4. wrong
  5. feeling
  6. impact
  7. making

Original Text


The problem is, we also found that that's just not very likely. Most of the time, the disk is different from the planet, and it looked like making our Moon this way would be an astronomical coincidence, and it was just hard for everyone to accept the idea that the Moon's special connection to Earth was an accident. The giant impact theory was still in trouble, and we were still trying to figure out how to make the Moon.

Then came the day when I realized my mistake. My student and I were looking at the data from these fast-spinning giant impacts. On that day, we weren't actually thinking about the Moon, we were looking at the planet. The planet gets super-hot and partially vaporized from the energy of the impact. But the data didn't look like a planet. It looked really strange. The planet was weirdly connected to the disk. I got that super-excited feeling when something really wrong might be something really interesting.

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Important Words


  1. accept
  2. accident
  3. astronomical
  4. coincidence
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  24. partially
  25. planet
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  27. realized
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  29. strange
  30. student
  31. theory
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  34. trouble
  35. vaporized
  36. weirdly
  37. wrong