Shortly after the formation of our planet, our moon was born. But no one knows exactly how. Our lovely friends at NASA say that a planetesimal (a forming planet) approximately the size of Mars was traveling in an orbit that crossed paths with Earth and that the impact of these two balls of rock, metal and ice, crashing into one another was at least 100 times the force of the meteorite that is said to have whipped dinosaurs from the face of our planet. When this planetesimal side-swiped Earth, it caused chunks of the Earth’s crust and mantle to break off. The heat that erupted from the impact melted these chunks together, and formed our moon. (It) may seem like a foreign rock revolving around us, with us, but it was actually once a part of us. A part of us that was ripped away billions of years ago, yet has never left us. - Excerpt from coming of age. The Moon, though always present and frequently visible, is hardly noticed in our day to day living. This collection of photographs is an attempt to capture our collective and distance fragment of ourselves at the immediate moment of recognition, a commitment to take notice.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:51:34 +0000
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