my question is that how moon is formed .
does earth has a role in the formation of moon

as someone told me that moon is formed when the earth meets with a meteroid and due to this incident moon comes out from the earth from the place where the ocean are situated in the present world

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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 smaller proto-Earth and another planetoid, about the size of Mars.

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