The current "best" answer is the Giant Impactor hypothesis. A proto-planet called "Theia" about the size of Mars is hypothesized to have struck the proto-Earth. This splattered a bunch of stuff out into space, where it coalesced to form the Moon.
The moon is to the earth, as the earth is to the sun.
Earth, by far.
The moon orbits Earth.
Our Earth has only the one moon.
YesYes. We call it the moon.
The moon has easily visible craters, but the ones on earth have mostly weathered away. The Earth has wind and the moon doesn't. Earth has atmosphere but the moon doesn't have one.
Sun, Earth, Moon. The moon is covered by the Earth's shadow.
Earth has oceans the moon doesn,t the earth has volcanoes the moon does not the earth has a core the earth does not
the earth does but the moon does not
No. The Moon is a separate object from Earth. However, Earth and the moon are sometimes regarded as a single Earth-moon system.
No, the Earth's gravity pulls the moon in towards Earth.
The moon with the specific name 'The Moon' orbits planet Earth.