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How the Moon was Made
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
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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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