How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?

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How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?

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The reason the Sun and Moon appear the same size in our sky is because the Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon, but it is 400 times farther away.

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