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Re:Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated by justinator on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:42PM (#12483936)
Is there a good theory why there's only one moon, rather than many moons? The diagrams show, "moonlets" - what happened to them? And why didn't this new mass not just collide back into Earth again?
Re:Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated by InclinedPlane on Monday September 12, 2016 @06:26PM (#12484183)
Yes. The dynamics of the situation would have caused the moons to merge (or crash into the Earth).