Classic Moon-Formation Simulations Treated the Colliding Proto-Earth and Theia as Strengthless Fluids, Typically Producing a Debris Disk that Assembled Later—but when Southwest Research Institute Researchers Added Temperature-Dependent Rock Strength, One Canonical Simulation Produced an Intact Moon in Roughly Five Hours.
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Classic Moon-formation simulations treated the colliding proto-Earth and Theia as strengthless fluids, typically producing a debris disk that assembled later—but when Southwest Research Institute researchers added temperature-dependent rock strength, one canonical simulation produced an intact Moon in roughly five hours.
Adding temperature-dependent rock strength to a canonical giant-impact calculation changed how Theia deformed—and in one run left a coherent Moon-sized satellite within hours.
A possible answer to one of the most basic astronomical questions. The article Moon: New study claims it may have been created in just 5 hours appeared first on Documento.
A research team from the University of Arizona claims to have solved one of the biggest mysteries in science about how the Moon was formed. For decades, scientists believed that the Moon was formed from a collision with Theia, a planet about the size of Mars. The collision resulted in […]
Researchers claim that the Moon - our planet's natural satellite - was formed in just a few hours as a result of a massive collision between ...
No slow aggregation – instead in a high arc into space: taking into account two unexpected factors, the formation of the moon is different than thought.
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