Just a hunch, but they say that our sun was much smaller when our planets were forming, maybe during heavy bombardment times, our sun may have gone through some changes too, same for our heliosphere. Picture our sun as our lungs and our skin as that of our heliosphere. As our sun goes through changes since it was smaller when it was younger, so does the 'skin', the heliosphere of our solar system. Our heliosphere still acts that way today through our suns' active cycles. During that change and when our solar system was still young, outer comets (in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt) were perturbed/shaken and had the chance of coming in for the kill. Hence explains all of those captured moons by the Jovians, etc. It would definitely explain Saturn's rings.
MHO
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- Our's is a rare Moon?
- A late Moon maybe?
- Certainly an Earth-impactor Moon formation theory stretches credulity.
- re: Certainly an Earth-impactor Moon formation theory stretches credulity. - Most logical though.
- What do you suggest instead?
- There are other ways to get a moon.
- Certainly an Earth-impactor Moon formation theory stretches credulity.
- A late Moon maybe?