Collisionless encounters and the origin of the lunar inclination

Kaveh Pahlevan () and Alessandro Morbidelli
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Kaveh Pahlevan: Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Alessandro Morbidelli: Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

Nature, 2015, vol. 527, issue 7579, 492-494

Abstract: Gravitational interactions after the Moon-forming event suggest that the current lunar inclination is the result of collisionless encounters of planetesimals with the early Moon–Earth system.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature16137

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