the Lagrange points are interesting places, possibly a junkyard of debris from the early Solar System.No chance of that -- more like a temporary storage facility for junk which will eventually create a Chicxulub-like impact crater on the Earth. But an interesting article and diagram.
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[snip] Gott wonders whether a large object of the sort believed to have struck the Earth some four billion years ago, thus creating the Moon, may have grown up close by, gradually nudged out of one of the Lagrangian points into collision with our planet... an incoming Mars-sized object from elsewhere in the Solar System would have struck the Earth with so much energy that it would have destroyed it. That and the makeup of oxygen isotopes found on the Moon — the same as on Earth — hints that the impactor must have formed in nearby space. [end]
When the Days Were Shorter
Alaska Science Forum (Article #742) | November 11, 1985 | Larry Gedney
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Moon over Chicxulub: Will Night Finally Fall on the Dinosaur-Extinction Debate?
American Scientist | November-December 1998 | Kirk Johnson
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New evidence for the Moon’s soft middle
New Scientist | 14 February 2002 | Will Knight
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Google Moon (thanks KS Flyover)
http://moon.google.com