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A fresh take on the origin of Earth’s Moon

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This new supercomputer simulation shows the Moon may have formed in just a few hours

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It's one of the highest resolution simulations of the Moon’s formation

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The simulation starts with the collision of a Mars-sized body with our planet

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Debris from the impact forms into two bodies

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The smaller of the two will become the Moon

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The gravity of the larger body propels the smaller body forward…

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and launches it onto a wide and stable orbit