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To: Free ThinkerNY
The result: Our planet was left with a single bulked-up and ever-so-slightly lopsided moon.

The moon would be (and is) slightly lopsided anyway because of tidal forces due to Earth's gravitational pull. That is why the moon's rotation is locked to its orbit so that the same side always faces the Earth.

13 posted on 08/03/2011 1:32:05 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

Indeed. And I’ve always thought the far side of the moon had more craters because that side takes more hits from meteors.


16 posted on 08/03/2011 3:44:14 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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