Co-accretion of the Earth-Moon system after the giant impact: Reduction of the total angular momentum by lunar impact ejecta

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-79

  Morishima, Ryuji ^a,b   Watanabe, Sei Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accretion; Earth; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842427917     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.10.017     Document Type: Article

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