Space

Here's the wikipedia page for the theory, which makes for a pretty cool read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis

Some cool stuff:

• The other body was a mars-sized protoplanet called Theia.
• According to computer simulations, remnants of Theia could be still visible inside the Earth as two giant anomalies of the Earth's mantle.
• By examining isotope ratios in lunar samples from the Apollo missions, we can see the moon and earth likely had a common origin.

I had to look up if there was some quirky benefit to using a gif for this type of simulation rendering and the answer is no.

That's what your mom looked like last night.

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Planets are balls of liquid really, they might have a thin shell that's solid but they behave as a liquid under pretty much any interaction. For gentle interactions they stay as near perfect spheres as a liquid under self gravity does. For more violent interactions they behave like the simulation shown.

It would negatively affect the trout population.

Edit for serious answer: It would burn away the atmosphere and boil off the oceans, so all multicellular life would be gone.
Anoxic single-celled organisms living deep inside the bedrock could survive.

If the entire crust is liquified, it is likely no life survives. However if chunks of still solid earth are thrown off the planet, get trapped in orbit, and eventually fall back down to the surface after it mostly resolidifies, some bacteria/archaea might be able to recolonize.

There are bacteria that can survive launch and atmospheric reentry. I’d imagine being embedded in a solid rock would help with this and it’s common to find archaea deep in the earth. Archaea are simple single cells but they are almost all extremophiles or just durable as hell enough to not care about environments we’d call extreme. (Some don’t do too well in oxygen though, hence the thriving underground)

Bacteria are also single celled, but more complex. This is where photosynthesis could restart without having to evolve again. And while bacteria are typically more sensitive to the environment than most archaea, there are bacteria that can survive launch, space, and atmospheric reentry.

As for multicellular life… larger organisms tend to be dependent on smaller ones. So hopefully the complex things that could survive ejection fall back down after bacteria recolonize the surface first.

Some fungal spores are likely to survive via ejecta just like the bacteria/archaea would. But without organic matter to eat or bond with, it’s unlikely those spores would reawaken. To be fair, fungal spores could probably just wait for ideal conditions before waking up so even some mushrooms might survive, they’d just not wake up till the surface is recolonized by other microbes.

Tardigrades are the most complex life I think might be able to survive. They can also do something similar to fungi but it would take some luck to make sure they were in their hibernating state before ejection and that they stay in that state through reentry and impact and onwards until there is water and a stable food source enough to sustain them.

The sun stays hot because she puts a lot of work into her appearance