Forming the lunar farside highlands by accretion of a companion moon

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7358, 2011, Pages 69-72

  Jutzi, M ^a,b   Asphaug, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SILICATE;

ACCRETION; CRATER; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELEVATION; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR MANTLE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; TERRAIN; TIMESCALE; UPLAND REGION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GEOLOGY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND; THICKNESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 79961148497     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10289     Document Type: Article

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