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    Making our Moon

    Jul 03, 2019 2 minutes
    FRED WATSON is Australia’s Astronomer-at-Large.

    SINCE THE APOLLO lunar landings of the 1960s and ’70s, we have understood that the Moon was formed early in the Solar System’s history as a result of something colliding with the Earth.

    An earlier hypothesis that the Moon was an asteroid

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