Identification of the giant impactor Theia in lunar rocks

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6188, 2014, Pages 1146-1150

  Herwartz, Daniel ^a,b   Pack, Andreas ^a   Friedrichs, Bjarne ^a   Bischoff, Addi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; OXYGEN 17; SEA WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER;

CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COLLISION; LUNAR CRUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FRACTIONATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; WEIGHT;

EID: 84901852188     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251117     Document Type: Article

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