Origin of the Moon-The Collision Hypothesis
@article{Stevenson1987OriginOT, title={Origin of the Moon-The Collision Hypothesis}, author={David J. Stevenson}, journal={Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences}, year={1987}, volume={15}, pages={271-315} }
In 1871, during his presidential address to the British Association in Edinburgh,
Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) discussed the impact of
two Earth-like bodies, asserting that "when two great masses come into
collision in space, it is certain that a large part of each is melted" [see
Arrhenius (1908, p. 218) for the complete quotation]. Although he did not
go on to speculate about lunar origin, it must have been remarkable to see
one of the creators of the bastions of nineteenth…
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