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A hit-and-run giant impact scenario

Reufer, Andreas ; Meier, Matthias LU ; Benz, Willy and Wieler, Rainer (2012) In Icarus 221(1). p.296-299
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. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Formation, Satellites, Moon, Collisional physics
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Icarus
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221
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1
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296 - 299
publisher
Academic Press
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  • wos:000309620200026
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0019-1035
DOI
10.1016/j.icarus.2012.07.021
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English
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