[meteorite-list] How the Moon Formed: New Research About the Giant Impact Hypothesis

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:28:21 -0500
Message-ID: <6d34cefa-85c5-1c8e-d337-86d4244d9c4e_at_att.net>

How the moon formed: New research sheds
light on what happened, Physorg, The Conversation
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-moon.html
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-earth-moon-identical-oxygen-twins.html

The paper is:

Cano, E.J., Sharp, Z.D. & Shearer, C.K. Distinct
oxygen isotope compositions of the Earth and
Moon. Nat. Geosci. (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0550-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0550-0#citeas

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Tue 10 Mar 2020 06:28:21 PM PDT