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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