Fraser Cain on Nostr: The scientific consensus is that the Moon formed billions of years ago after a ...
The scientific consensus is that the Moon formed billions of years ago after a Mars-sized planet crashed into the Earth. But there are a few lines of evidence that suggest that the Moon could have been captured by the Earth's gravity instead. The Moon's orbit is more in line with the plane of the ecliptic than the Earth's equator. Researchers propose that the Earth's gravity separated a binary pair of worlds, catching the Moon and discarding its partner.
https://www.psu.edu/news/behrend/story/what-moons-true-origin-story 
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