Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk

Shigeru Ida (), Robin M. Canup and Glen R. Stewart
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Shigeru Ida: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Robin M. Canup: LASP, University of Colorado
Glen R. Stewart: LASP, University of Colorado

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6649, 353-357

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/38669

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