A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon

Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti (), Hagai B. Perets () and Sean N. Raymond
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Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Hagai B. Perets: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Sean N. Raymond: CNRS, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, UMR 5804, F-33270 Floirac, France

Nature, 2015, vol. 520, issue 7546, 212-215

Abstract: The Moon is thought to have formed mainly from a giant impactor striking the Earth but it has seemed odd that the Earth and its impactor (and hence the Moon) had such similar compositions; here simulations of planetary accretion show that although the different planets have distinct compositions, the composition of each giant impactor is indeed often very similar to that of the planet it strikes.

Date: 2015
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