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Is there any way to know what the Earth's rotational speed might have been prior to the collision with Theia that is theorized to have formed the Moon? And is there any chance the Earth ever experienced tidal locking/synchronous rotation with the Sun?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/askscience

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