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What formed the holes on the moon?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Moons can occur around planet in a few different ways. They include:

- A major hypothesis is that a huge rocky mass the size of Mars collided with Earth about 20 million years after Earth formed. Material blasted out from Earth.

-The moon was formed elsewhere and captured by the gravity of the planet. This is what happens when an asteroid goes near enough to a planet, but does not collide with it, so it begins orbiting it.

-The moon and planet formed at the same time within each other's proximity from the same planetary material. This is called co-accretion.

-If an object collides with a planet the debris released into space can coalesce through gravity, to form a moon. This is how we think the Earth's moon was formed.

-The moon could have been once part of the planet. The planet's centrifugal force can cause a blob of magma to separate and harden to form a moon. For this to happen the planet must have been molten first.

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Stars more massive than the sun turn into a red supergiant rather than a red giant.At its core, the red supergiant burns helium to make other elements including carbon and oxygen. Eventually it begins to make iron.Iron absorbs energy rather than releasing it.In a split secopnd, the star collapses under its own mass condensing the core into a dense nucleus.The nucleus reacts to the squeezing by releasing massive shock waves, exploding the star into a supernova.Sometimes this turns into a neutron star but often the core that remains after a supernova is so massive that nothing can support it against its own gravity.It collapses into itself and becomes a black hole. - Devarshi Choudhury,India

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It cant and never will. The moon is just a big rock

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craters

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