Multiple-Impact Theory of Moon's Origin Revisited

Multiple-Impact Theory of Moon's Origin Revisited

Study suggests Earth once had many moonlets — until they
merged to form the moon By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/10/study-suggests-earth-once-had-many-moonlets-until-they-merged-to-form-the-moon/

How Earth's previous moons collided to form the moon:
New theory. American Technion Society, January 9, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109125125.htm

The Many-Moons Theory by Alan Burdick, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-many-moons-theory

The paper is:

Rufu, R., O. Aharonson, and H. B. Perets, 2016, A multiple-
impact origin for the Moon. Nature Geoscience (2017)
doi:10.1038/ngeo2866 Received 14 September 2016
Accepted 30 November 2016 Published online 09 January 2017
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2866.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides Data About Moon's Origin

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 15 09:06:45 EDT 2009

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the
Moon Took Shape by Naiomi Solomom, September 11, 2009
Ethiopian Review.

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the
Moon Took Shape. Data from the recently retired Kaguya
spacecraft support the notion that the moon's crust
congealed from an ocean of magma by John Matson,
Scientific American,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=moon-magma-ocean

The paper is:

Ohtake, M. T. Matsunaga, J. Haruyama, Y. Yokota, T.
Morota, C. Honda, Y. Ogawa, M. Torii, H. Miyamoto, T.
Arai, N. Hirata, A. Iwasaki, R. Nakamura, T. Hiroi,
T. Sugihara, H. Takeda1, H. Otake, C. M. Pieters, K.
Saiki, K. Kitazato, M. Abe, N. Asada, H. Demura, Y.
Yamaguchi, S. Sasaki1, S. Kodama, J. Terazono, M.
Shirao, A. Yamaji, S. Minami, H. Akiyama and J.-L.
Josset, 2009, The global distribution of pure
anorthosite on the Moon. Nature. vol. 461, no. 7261,
pp. 236-240 doi:10.1038/nature08317

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/abs/nature08317.html

Yours,

Paul H.