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I didn’t realize the moon was ever anything but just a dead rock floating there
The leading hypothesis is that the moon was formed when a massive asteroid smashed into the earth and blasted a huge chunk of the earth into space, and that became the moon. If true then the moon’s birth and younger existence was wildly cataclysmic
a massive asteroid smashed into the earth
Asteroid, or proto-planet?
Wiki refers to it as a “mars-sized body”
