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Asymmetric shock heating and the terrestrial magma ocean origin of the Moon

One of the difficulties of the current giant impact model for the origin of the Moon is to explain the marked similarity in the isotopic compositions and the substantial differences in the major element chemistry. Physics of shock heating is analyzed to show that the degree of heating is asymmetric...

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Autor principal: KARATO, Shun-ichiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621956
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.90.97