Impact Of Earth's Moons

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You may call it the Big Bang Theory or even the Big Splash, but the Theia Impact is the biggest contribution to our planet and is timeless to us humans. Although the impact happened 4.5 billion years ago, and 30 to 50 million years after the solar system began to form, a mars sized rock created a modern tool used everyday by everybody. Earth’s moon is unique in matter and how it became apart of our planet's orbit. Moons are captured by their planets by their rings and pull of the orbit of the planet. Jupiter has 60 captured moons all with different molecular material than the other. Earth's moon was discovered to have matched a sample of earth's soil indicating the making of the moon involved earth rather than a capturing of this mass as jupiter

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