Jan 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986sci...231..341b&link_type=abstract
Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 231, Jan. 24, 1986, p. 341-345.
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Earth-Moon System, Lunar Evolution, Selenology, Terrestrial Planets, Earth Orbits, Fission, Impact, Long Term Effects, Mass Transfer, Moon, Origin, Genesis, Theoretical Studies, Hypotheses, Formation, Terrestrial Planets, Planetesimals, Impacts, Disk, Accretion, Dynamics
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The origin of the moon is considered within the theory of formation of the terrestrial planets by accumulation of planetesimals. The theory predicts the occurrence of giant impacts, suggesting that the moon formed after a roughly Mars-sized body impacted on the protoearth. The impact blasted portions of the protoearth and the impacting body into geocentric orbit, forming a prelunar disk from which the moon later accreted. Although other mechanisms for formation of the moon appear to be dynamically impossible or implausible, fundamental questions must be answered before a giant impact origin can be considered both possible and probable.
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