<p>While I was reading about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ultima Thule</a>, I was wondering if the discovery of contact binary objects had any effect on our current theories of how the Moon formed?</p>

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2019-04-09T05:45:30.830Z
Not sure what you are getting at here. What effect could it have had?
James K
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2019-04-09T13:58:13.260Z
@JamesK the most widelly spread hypotesis is the big impact hypotesis, I was wondering if there contact binaries might be grounds for a new hypostesis
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Do contact binaries such as Ultima Thule affect our current theories on how the Moon formed?
Jon
# Do contact binaries such as Ultima Thule affect our current theories on how the Moon formed?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-09)

While I was reading about [Ultima Thule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69), I was wondering if the discovery of contact binary objects had any effect on our current theories of how the Moon formed?

**Tags:** the-moon, contact-binaries

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> **username_1**: Not sure what you are getting at here. What effect could it have had?  
> **username_0**: @JamesK the most widelly spread hypotesis is the big impact hypotesis, I was wondering if there contact binaries might be grounds for a new hypostesis  

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