User blog:CrimsonGaiaofficial/Moon Theory

Okay, so i know a lot of speculation has gone on about the moon of RWBY, while unconfirmed by Monty or the rest of the team, i can give a scientific explanation on its strange appearence.

So for those of you who dont know, the moon in real life was created billions of years ago when a planet roughly the size of Mars (half of Earth's size) named Theia crashed into Earth. while many believe that it was a dead on crash, it has been proven impossible since a dead on crash would have either created two moons (which would have no effect on the Earth's tilt) or a ring likeon Saturn or Uranus. simulations have proven that Theia merely skimmed the Earth and Earth's gravitational pull brang it back around a second time, the larger chunks eventually creating our large moon (roughly 1/4 the size of Earth).

In the RWBYverse, the story would be the same except that a large chunk (not as big as the moon chunk) would have crashed into it, leaving the asteroid-like trail blasted off. I would also like to state that in real life, both collisions would have happened withe abou 4.6 days.