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How do planets get their moons?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Lunacy and the Origin of Moons

Our moon is sort of a combination of how some of these other moons can form right like we had a proto planet earth and when there was a visitor that was flying around came near us it sort of got captured or collided with our earth. It all became a big mess and out of that mess you know the earth and the moon formed sort of as siblings but also not siblings because there was it came from a different planet the stuff. There was a big fight early on when we're left over cleaning up the mess yet it is really fascinating, i love this sort of archaeology this like detective story figuring out what happened billions of years ago reconstructing the story from the clues that are left behind

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