The Moon's tilt for gold

Robin Canup ()
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Robin Canup: Robin Canup is in the Planetary Science Directorate, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA.

Nature, 2015, vol. 527, issue 7579, 455-456

Abstract: The Moon's current orbit is at odds with theories predicting that its early orbit was in Earth's equatorial plane. Simulations now suggest that its orbit was tilted by gravitational interactions with a few large bodies. See Letter p.492

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/527455a

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