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  During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon  

 EL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped in the asteroid belt by the migrating gas giants between 60 million and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. 

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/v4nxwCpBcRLaT8aTDdkRjY.jpg

https://www.space.com/jupiter-earth-moon-great-instability-chondrites