Report: Our Moon May Have Formed From Multiple Small Ones

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer, Waco Tribune-Herald
Mon, 01/09/2017 - 11:54am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today.

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