Accretion of the Earth

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4061-4075

  Canup, Robin M ^a  

^a Southwest Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Origin of the Earth; Origin of the Moon; Planet formation

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FORMING; PLANETS;

ACCRETION; CIRCULAR ORBITS; CURRENT MODELS; EARTH MASSES; EARTH'S ACCRETIONS; ESCAPE VELOCITIES; IMPACT ANGLES; IMPACT SPEEDS; IMPACTOR; LARGE-SCALE; MAJOR EVENTS; ORBITAL ECCENTRICITIES; ORIGIN OF THE EARTH; ORIGIN OF THE MOON; PLANET FORMATION; RADIAL MIGRATIONS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; WAVE INTERACTIONS; WITH OR WITHOUT;

MOON;

ASTRONOMY; MOON;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; MINOR PLANETS; MOON; PLANETS;

EID: 54049104463     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0101     Document Type: Review

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