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Explain the role that gravitation played in the formation of the Moon after the large planetesimal hit Earth.

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While some of the debris from the collision merged back into Earth, the gravity caused the accretion of much of the debris into a separate ball, forming the Moon.

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Answer:

The gravity pulled the bits back and formed a ball which is the moon

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