[oldtech]

How do they know the moon has been our satellite for some 4.5 billion years when they know there is no historical evidence for this,but some saying otherwise?

[SunkenCiv]

I'm willing to entertain that notion.

• Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say [2002]
• Heavenly Bodies Stir Up Routine Catastrophes [2003]
• No Moon, no life on Earth, suggests theory [2004]
• In the shadow of the Moon [2004]
• A Celestial Collision [2004]
• When the Days Were Shorter [2004]
• It Came from Outer Space? [2004]
• New evidence for the Moon's soft middle [2004]
• Comet or Meteorite Impact Events in 1178AD? [2005]
• An explosion on the Moon [2005]
• Neptune Might Have Captured Triton [2006]
• Planets Around Planets? [2006]
• Landscapes from the ancient and eroded lunar far side [2006]
• Far-Flung Space Crash May Help Solve Mystery of Moon's Formation [2007]
• Ancient impact may have bowled the Moon over [2007]
• Earth's Moon is Rare Oddball [2007]
• Earth's Moon is 'cosmic rarity' [2007]
• Moon Is Younger And More Earth-Like Than Thought [2007]
• Moon Has Iron Core, Lunar-Rock Study Says [2008]
• Did Earth's Twin Cores Spark Plate Tectonics? [2009]
• Source of Moon's Magnetism Found [2009]
• Were Mercury and Mars separated at birth? [2009]
• Far side of the moon 'could have been visible from earth' [2009]
• The Curious Case of Missing Asteroids [2009]
• Quakes triggered by tides of solid Earth [2009]
• STEREO Hunts for Remains of an Ancient Planet near Earth [2009]
• The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet [2009]
• STEREO Hunts for Remains of an Ancient Planet near Earth... [2009]
• Why is the Earth moving away from the sun? [2009]
• The Moon may have formed in a nuclear explosion [2010]
• Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion [2010]
• Moon Not Only Has Water, but Lots of It [2010]
• Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons [2010]
• Where on Earth has our water come from? [2010]
• Astronauts, Artists Agree: Moon Stinks of Gunpowder [2010]
• Moon has liquid core just like Earth...reveal sensors left on surface by astronauts 40 YEARS ago [2011]
• Moon's interior water casts doubt on formation theory [2011]
• Who Needs a Moon? [2011]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Evolution of the Moon [ video ] [2012]
• Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands [2012]
• Solar System Ice: Source of Earth's Water [2012]
• Water Hidden in the Moon May Have Proto-Earth Origin [2013]
• Crystal is 'oldest scrap of Earth crust' [2014]
• Astrobiology Top 10: Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life [2015]
• Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V [2016]
• Earth and Venus are the Same Size, so Why Doesn't Venus Have a Magnetosphere?.... [2017]
• The Moon's equatorial bulge hints at Earth's early conditions [2018]