Earth's Moon Formed in 'Moonlet' Mashup After Many Earth Impacts

Monday, January 9, 2017 - 13:01 in Astronomy & Space

Earth's moon may be the product of many small moonlets that merged together after multiple objects as big as Mars collided with Earth, leaving disks of planetary debris orbiting the planet, a new study suggests.

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