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Is the Moon the left over stuff when the Earth was made

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Donald R. Davis 1975-Not quite. There is a large consensus in the scientific community that the moon didnt actually exist when earth was formed. What happened, is that a small time(in geological timescales) after the formation of earth another planet collided with earth. The early solar system is believed to have possibly originally had up to 28 planets,......
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"At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth's growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit around the Earth and aggregated into the moon. " Dr. William K. Hartmann and Dr. Donald R. Davis 1975

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Not quite. There is a large consensus in the scientific community that the moon didn't actually exist when earth was formed. What happened, is that a small time(in geological timescales) after the formation of earth another planet collided with earth. The early solar system is believed to have possibly originally had up to 28 planets, many of which were lost due to various reasons, one being collisions. This collision would have liquefied earths entire crust turning earth into a giant molten blob of magma. A great deal of material would have been ejected far away from earth and some would have settled in a stable orbit. Over 100 million ears this ejected material would eventually combine together due to gravity and become the moon.

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The prevailing hypothesis today is that the Earth–Moon system formed as a result of a giant impact: a Mars-sized body hitting the newly formed proto-Earth, blasting material into orbit around it, which accreted to form the Moon.[17] Giant impacts are thought to have been common in the early Solar System. Computer simulations modelling a giant impact are consistent with measurements of the angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system, and the small size of the lunar core; they also show that most of the Moon came from the impactor, not from the proto-Earth.[18] More recent tests suggest more of the Moon coalesced from the Earth and not the impactor.[19][20][21]. Meteorites show that other inner Solar System bodies such as Mars and Vesta have very different oxygen and tungsten isotopic compositions to the Earth, while the Earth and Moon have near-identical isotopic compositions. Post-impact mixing of the vaporized material between the forming Earth and Moon could have equalized their isotopic compositions,[22] although this is debated.[23]

The large amount of energy released in the giant impact event and the subsequent reaccretion of material in Earth orbit would have melted the outer shell of the Earth, forming a magma ocean.[24][25] The newly formed Moon would also have had its own lunar magma ocean; estimates for its depth range from about 500 km to the entire radius of the Moon.[24]
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Is it SO hard to do a basic Google search ? Really ?

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it is suspected that a rock the size of mars stuck earth a long time ago, it carved out the pacific ocean, and the debris cooled off in earths orbit forming the moon

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It was almost certainly made when a smaller proto-earth collided with a large object.

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Yes.

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No God created everything.
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