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We believe that the proto-Earth, very early in the formation of our solar system, probably collided with another planet, one that might have been as large as Mars. The collision probably entirely re-formed the resultant Earth, and that the heavy metallic cores of both planets merged. Debris blasted into space by the collision probably coalesced to form the Moon.

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