[meteorite-list] Dating Moon-Forming Impact With Meteorites

Paul H. inselberg at cox.net
Fri Apr 17 07:11:59 EDT 2015


Dating the moon-forming impact event with meteorites
University of Arizona, Scinece Daily, April 16, 2015
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150416145543.htm

SwRI-led team studies meteorites from asteroids to 
date Moon-forming impact. Debris from the Moon-
forming impact blasted main belt asteroids long ago, 
but left behind traces of what happened. Southwest 
Research Institute, San Antonio, April 16, 2015
http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/2015/moon-forming-impact.htm http://www.swri.org/press/2015/moon-forming-impact.htm

The paper is:

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlicky, S. Marchi, T. Swindle, 
E. R. D. Scott, J. R. Weirich, and H. Levison, 2015, 
Dating the Moon-forming impact event with asteroidal 
meteorites. Science. vol. 348, no. 6232, pp. 321-323
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/321

Yours,

Paul H.


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