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Secrets of Moon dust investigated in Milton Keynes

Professor Mahesh Anand from the Open University talked to Roberto Perrone. Prof Anand's team hope to answer fundamental questions about how the Moon formed and about the early years of planet Earth. Inside the grains of dust could be evidence to back up scientists' theory that the Moon was made from the debris thrown out when Earth struck a Mars-sized planet 4.5 billion years ago.

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