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Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggest

Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggestWorldPing

New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the moon may have formed from the giant impact that created the Earth–moon system.

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