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When Did Earth Get Its Moon

As the Earth flies through space in its celestial dance around the sun, it's accompanied by its perpetual partner, the moon.
It’s a general rule in science that the more you know about some aspect of the natural world, the better you understand it. But rules are sometimes broken, and the question of how Earth got its Moon ...
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global ...