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Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth (apnews.com)
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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wiki refers to it as a "mars-sized body"

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So... the planet or candy bar?

Yes it's a joke, however if a mars candybar hits earth at 99.999999% of the speed of light, I'd imagine the impact would be anything but a blip