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28 July 2021 at 1:59 am
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Andy has already addressed your second issue.
As for the first: the impact wasn’t big enough to destroy the Earth but was big enough to cause fatal damage to the significantly smaller impactor. What makes you think that the Earth’s orbit wasn’t changed by the collision from what it was into what it is now?