r/interestingasfuck • u/howimetyourcakeshop • 10h ago

Our moon being formed.

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u/Rxckless92 7h 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/ChangKai-Shrek 4h ago

The moon is very weird and we don't know really anything about its origin for certain. That's true for just about everything in the universe (including the universe itself), but it's a plausible explanation based on the available evidence.