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According to the feelings of most astronomers today, that's not far off the mark. More and more astronomers are subscribing to the idea that the origin of the moon was in the earliest days of our solar system, when the earth was still semi-molten, and there were still huge impacts going on constantly. A body believed to be about half the size of earth slammed into earth, and the enormous chunk it tore loose eventually became our moon - so they think.

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