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Old 10-09-2012, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
I like how they think (and have some math to back it up) that before what became part of the moon hit the earth it had 4 hour days - the other direction. And the axis was straight up and down.
I think it's actually that a huge asteroid hit the earth and knocked a big hunk of it off and that that became the moon.

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