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The Moon was created when a planet the size of Mars crashed into Earth less than 100 million years after the Sun was born, some 4.6 billion years ago. This essentially smashed the object and part of the Earth into pieces. Those pieces of debris went into orbit around the Earth and gradually collected up into a ball like object to make what we know now as our moon.

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