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Questions Concerning Formation of the Moon

• How was the Moon formed?
• What hypotheses have been offered to explain the origin of the Moon?
• Which idea for the Moon's formation is most convincing?
• Is the information sufficient to distinguish the various possibilities?
• What effect did formation of the Moon have on the Earth?
• What were the physical changes (e.g. in rotation, tilt)?
• What were the chemical changes in composition?
• How would the Earth be different if the Moon had not been formed?
• What specific characteristics, including biological processes, might be changed?

• General information on the Moon
• http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm
• http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon.html
  
• Theories for the formation of the Moon
• http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/...moon_form...html
• http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/Academics/Astr221/SolarSys/lunaform.html
  
• http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html
• http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=446
• Detailed evaluation of hypothesis for the Moon's origin
• http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/research/planetary/undergraduate/bugiolacchi/origins.htm
  
• Simple explanation
• http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html
• Recent findings on the Moon's origin
  
• http://www.nature.com/nsu/010816/010816-14.html

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