Hannah
Thanks to a tweet by @bitshammer that has been going around, people are realizing there are most likely tons of dinosaur bones sitting up on the moon. 65 million years ago before humans made it to the moon, the dinosaurs seemed to have made it there first.
How did the dinosaurs get on the moon, you asked?
Well, to the best of our knowledge when a big ass asteroid hit the Earth some dinosaurs were hanging onto pieces of it that were launched into space and hit the Moon. Basically, an idiot’s version of a rocket ship.
Now, clearly, this photo is a joke and the visitor’s center was built after the asteroid hit, but this photo shows the enormity of some of these asteroids and the damage they leave behind. It’s easy to imagine how much trajectory the disturbed rocks may have had.
Dinosaur bones could be on many different planets.
If the asteroid is large and fast enough, the impact can make debris achieve escape velocity (11.2 kilometers a second) and leave our atmosphere entirely. Much of the debris will return back to Earth, but many pieces will be launched into space and possibly collide with other moons and planets.
At least 289 meteorites have been discovered on Earth that made it from impacts on Mars. Our own moon is thought to have been made by impacts on Mars. Many other moons have been thought to been made the same way. It is believed that microorganisms can survive the journey to or from Earth while hidden in the rock.
Thoughts from an expert:
Author Peter Brannen explains in his book, The Ends of the World, Earth was moving so quickly “as the asteroid collided with the earth, in the sky above it where there should have been air, the rock had punched a hole of outer space vacuum in the atmosphere. As the heavens rushed in to close this hole, enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond — all within a second or two of impact.”
With this knowledge, we can safely say that there are certainly pieces of dinosaur bones on the Moon and probably Mars too.
