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Remnants from Earth’s birth linger 4.5B years later (May 2016)

3 points by DrScump 10y ago

DrScump 10y ago
... implying (among other things) a smaller colliding body with proto-Earth to make the Moon (Pluto-sized rather than Mars-sized, per interview). Abstract: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6287/809 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6287/809 Supplementary details: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2016/05/11/352.6287.809.DC1/aad8563-Rizo-SM.pdf http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2016/05/11/3... Great interview with Hanika Rizo: https://audioboom.com/posts/4625582-tales-of-the-beginning-of-the-earth-hanika-rizo-geotopqc-universite-du-quebec-a-montreal-montreal-canada?playlist_direction=forward&t=0 https://audioboom.com/posts/4625582-tales-of-the-beginning-o...