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How did the Moon survive next to the Earth since earth and Moon came into existence?
What mechanism(s) prevented the gravitational effect of the earth on the moon from shattering the moon when it was closer to the earth than the Roche Limit some 4.5 billion years ago?
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What are ShadowBands during SolarEclipse and how can it be reproduced?
I recently got to know about different phases of a solar eclipse and its impact on Earth and its living creatures.., but one of the most interesting and not well explained phenomenon is the ...
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On the formation of Earth's moon
NASA states that :
The moon was formed ~4.5 billion years ago, about 30–50 million years
after the origin of the Solar System, out of debris thrown into orbit
by a massive collision between a ...
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Earth, Moon, gravitatioal pull
Does the gravitational pull that causes tides, also affect the Earth's land mass. Does it affect the atoms, molecules, is there a slight bulge to the actual Earth / Land itself?
