
What is tidal locking?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The History of the Moon
The moon is not just like some object that we captured as it was flying by. We think that the moon actually comes from a huge collision, something like 100 million years after the earth was formed. It got vaporized, but then it coalesced, right? Gravity is very, very patient.
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