Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk

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Sep 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997natur.389..353i&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 389, Issue 6649, pp. 353-357 (1997).

Physics

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Although the mechanism by which the Moon was formed is currently unknown, several lines of evidence point to its accretion from a circumterrestrial disk of debris generated by a giant impact on the Earth. Theoretical simulations show that a single large moon can be produced from such a disk in less than a year, and establish a direct relationship between the size of the accreted moon and the initial configuration of the debris disk.

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