Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6848, 2001, Pages 708-712

  Canup, Robin M ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EARTH (PLANET); LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; ORBITS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SPACE DEBRIS;

IMPACT ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

MOON;

ACCRETION; EJECTA; FORMATION MECHANISM; IMPACT; MOON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0035899403     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35089010     Document Type: Article

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