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they go opposite ways


just imagine the mass of the earth rotating, what force would be required to stop its rotation?

now add another rotating planet to do the stopping!

not a pretty picture for either planet.

I would most certainly say molten.

and the planets would continue to rotate even after the initial tugg of gravity that rips huge continental sized chunks of crust and underlying magma off into space as the two become one.

when two planets become close like that the gravity of the two planets will find a new center of gravity and the mass of the two will move towards the new center of gravity.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxRfQsXrgiA&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVQS2W0_r7U&NR=1




3/4 inch of dust build up on the moon in 4.527 billion years,LOL and QM is fantasy science.