
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
November 17, 201721m 23s
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Show Notes
Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evidence has cast doubt on that story, leaving researchers to dream up new ways to get a giant rock into orbit.
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