Dating the Moon-forming impact event with asteroidal meteorites

The inner solar system's biggest and most recent known collision was the Moon-forming giant impact between a large protoplanet and proto-Earth. Not only did it create a disk near Earth that formed the Moon, it also ejected several percent of an Earth mass out of the Earth-Moon system. Here, we...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2015-04, Vol.348 (6232), p.321-323
Hauptverfasser:	Bottke, W. F., Vokrouhlický, D., Marchi, S., Swindle, T., Scott, E. R. D., Weirich, J. R., Levison, H.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Asteroids Astronomy Collisions Earth Estimates Fragments Heat Heating Meteorites Meteors & meteorites Moon Solar system Star & galaxy formation
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