New approaches to the Moon's isotopic crisis

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

Volumn 372, Issue 2024, 2014, Pages

  Melosh, H J ^a,b,c  

^a Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant impact; Isotope; Moon; Origin

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES;

EARTH-MOON SYSTEM; GIANT IMPACT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SYSTEMS; MOST STRINGENT TESTS; ORIGIN; RESONANT INTERACTION; VOLATILE CONTENTS;

MOON;

EID: 84906309095     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0168     Document Type: Review

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