r/interestingasfuck • u/howimetyourcakeshop • 9h ago

Our moon being formed.

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u/Rxckless92 6h ago

I'm rather uneducated about this stuff, but how do the scientist know for sure this is how it happened?

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u/neorapsta 6h ago

It's impossible to know for sure but we can make fairly good guesses by looking at the composition of the Earth and the Moon and the  running simulations of what we think might have happened. Then we can see if the results are similar or if there's something we're missing