Special Issue: Origin of Terrestrial Planets and the Earth–Moon System
- 1 April 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 57 (4) , 56-62
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1752423
Abstract
Increasingly sophisticated computer simulations show how the four solid planets could have emerged through collisions and accretion. One late, giant collision with Earth is the likely origin of the Moon.Keywords
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