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SUBMITTER: Fischer RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782809 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fischer Rebecca A RA Zube Nicholas G NG Nimmo Francis F
Nature communications 20210104 1
The Earth and Moon have identical or very similar isotopic compositions for many elements, including tungsten. However, canonical models of the Moon-forming impact predict that the Moon should be made mostly of material from the impactor, Theia. Here we evaluate the probability of the Moon inheriting its Earth-like tungsten isotopes from Theia in the canonical giant impact scenario, using 242 N-body models of planetary accretion and tracking tungsten isotopic evolution, and find that this probab ...[more]