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What causes earth to have a moon?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

At the beginning of the formation of the planets, when Earth was still a boiling hot planet, made of molten rock, another still forming planet, about the size of Mars, crashed into the Earth, ejecting fragments of rocky material that condensed into Earth's only satellite, the moon.

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