Like the planet Mercury surrounded by the lustre of sunset, her permanent brilliancy passed without much notice in the temporary glory of the situation.
You see, not only was it able to explain with absolute precision the strange behaviour of Mercury, but it explains to this day everything we can see out there in the universe that has anything to do with gravity.
The earth has likely been hit by asteroids just as many times as the moon or mercury in the past, but how many times have humans actually witnessed an event like this happening?