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What were the three popular explanations for the moon's formation

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The Earth was rotating very quickly when it was first formed, (about the same age as the conditions for the first theory,) and the Moon spun off the Earth due to .... There are three different kinds of rocks, depending on how they were formed. does this help?
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differentiation and solidification of the core

a cloud of gas and dust in space was disturbed possibly by a large explosion from a star and the shock waves which intern pressed the dust and particle's together

a meteor crashing into earth and breaking out a rock the size of the moon which flew back up into space
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