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    • Title A shocking birth for the Moon?
    • Released 11/07/2003 2:03 pm
    • Copyright AOES Medialab, ESA 2002
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      A shocking birth for the Moon? SMART-1's researchers will examine the theory that our companion in space was made from the debris of a monstrous collision thousands of millions of years ago - between the newly born Earth and a smaller planet.


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