Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet UCLA-led research reconstructs massive crash, which took place 4.5 billion years ago by Stuart Wolpert, UCAL Newsroom, January 28, 2016 http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/moon-was-produced-by-a-head-on-collision-between-earth-and-a-forming-planet
Are we getting closer to understanding where the Moon actually came from? Los Angeles times http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-moon-formation-20160129-story.html Young1, E. D., I. E. Kohl, P. H. Warren, D. C. Rubie, S. A. Jacobson, and A. Morbidelli, 2016, Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact. Science. vol. 351, no. 6272, pp. 493-496. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6272/493 It seems like this event would have scattered bits and pieces of Theia and pre-impact Earth into space where they would drift about in space and eventually come back as meteorites. Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
