How Does The Story Of How The Moon Formed

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Relay the story of how the Moon formed. Integrate as many of the Moon's features into the story as possible.
The earth was hit by a asteroid-sized object about 4.5 billion years ago. The impact was so hard that it made earth acquire a faster spin. Some of the material from the collision melted into the earth but some of it got hurled into space. The material that got thrown into space was enough to form into a small object a little smaller than the planet Mercury. Therefore the earth and moon are very similar in composition. For the moons size and distance from the sun, unlike the earth, it has a very little core. Because of the oxygen isotope ratios of earth and moon being so similar, it indicates that they originated in the same part