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  • The Moon
    • Structure
      • Has a crust, mantle and outer and inner core
        • The core is off center
      • Has a thicker crust than Earth
    • Near side
      • Mare/Marias
      • Craters
      • Mountains
    • Far Side
      • Emptier
      • much more textured with bumps and craters
      • Thicker crust
    • Theories of creation
      • Capture Theory
        • The theory that the Moon was formed somewhere else in the solar system, and then captured by Earth's gravational field
      • Fissons' Theory
        • The idea that the Moon is a part of the Earth that was seperated
      • Giant Impactor Theory
        • A planet the sizeof mars struck Earth soon afer formation of the solar system.
          • Ejecting large volumes of heated materieals from the outer layers of both objects
            • A disk or orbiting materials was formed and matter eventually stuck to it to form the moon.
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