Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10701699 | Icarus | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The formation of the Moon from the debris of a slow and grazing giant impact of a Mars-sized impactor on the proto-Earth (Cameron and Ward [1976]. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf.; Canup and Asphaug [2001]. Nature 412, 708) is widely accepted today. We present an alternative scenario with a hit-and-run collision (Asphaug [2010]. Chem. Erde 70, 199) with a fractionally increased impact velocity and a steeper impact angle.
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Authors
Andreas Reufer, Matthias M.M. Meier, Willy Benz, Rainer Wieler,