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There's a few different theories on this, but today, most astronomers feel that very early in earth's history - when it was still essentially a ball of molten rock - Earth was impacted by another huge object, perhaps half the size of earth. This blasted out a huge chunk that fell into orbit around the earth, and eventually became the moon.

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