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Moon making made easy

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Mars-sized mass implicated by new model for Moon's violent birth.

It would have been a good day to stay indoors. The surface of the Earth melted. A large part of the rocky mantle was hurled into orbit. But when the smoke cleared, there was a new Moon - literally - in the sky.

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  1. Canup, R. M. & Asphaug, E. Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation. Nature 412, 708 - 712 (2001).

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