The impact theory for origin of the Moon
Abstract
A discussion is given of the essential ideas contained in the suggestion of W. R. Ward and the author that a very large impact on the proto-Earth involving a body with about the mass of Mars or greater led to the formation of an accretion disk about the proto-Earth, and that from the dissipation of this disk the Moon was formed.
- Publication:
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Origin of the Moon
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986ormo.conf..609C