How the Moon was Made

A new theory about the birth of the moon has the Earth spinning faster than we first thought...

25 October 2012

By Dominic Ford.

Part of the show New Science with NuSTAR

FULL-MOON

Photograph of a full moon, viewed from the Earth

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CC0, via Pixabay

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"Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning" (2012) Science

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