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The moon may have formed from a group of smaller moonlets
A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience this week suggests an alternate history for Earth's celestial companion. According to the researchers behind the study, the moon isn't just one large space rock, but 20 or so smaller "moonlets" made of matter that was blasted away from Earth in a series of impacts and merged together over time into the moon we have now.
