The creation of Earth's moon

At around four and a half billion years ago, Earth received a collision from an object known as Theia. The recent discovery may be able to solve the question of how the moon was formed and why it is so similar to Earth.

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Citations

Websites

Space.com - https://www.space.com/19275-moon-formation.html

Nature (paper) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0354-2

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Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

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