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The current thinking is that during the early Solar System, in what is called the Bombardment Period, a protoplanet collided with the young Earth and knocked off a big chunk (about 1/80th of the planet's mass). For a while, the debris of this collision circled Earth with Saturn-like rings, but eventually these consolidated into the Moon.

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