The Great Impact Hypothesis

Geologists had found that the moon was covered in a special kind of rock called a north recite. Scientists thought at one point, the moon could have been a giant magma ocean. This and other evidence meant that the moon couldn't have been created by the slow smushing of dust and crumbs over millions of years like scientists originally thought. There had to have been some epic, violent event.

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