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Questions about the processes, theories and evidence for the formation of planetary bodies.

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What was Earth's mass before the collision with Theia?

I'm not sure if there was a significant amount of debris, however the calculation you mentioned would at least give an upper bound on the value: $ M_{piE}=\text{Greatest possible mass of pre-impact E …
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