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Origin of the Moon: the Synestia 
Giant impact hypothesis
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Flaws
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Can differentiate by looking at isotopic fingerprints of the rocks, of which Earth and moon are very similar.
New discovery
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They make instead an entirely new class of astronomical object, a transient hybrid between plant and disk called a synestia that could explain many of the moon’s most mysterious features.
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