Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact

Author:

Young Edward D.1,Kohl Issaku E.1,Warren Paul H.1,Rubie David C.2,Jacobson Seth A.23,Morbidelli Alessandro3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

2. Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, D-95490 Bayreuth, Germany.

3. Laboratoire Lagrange, Université de Nice–Sophia Antipolis, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, CNRS, 06304 Nice, France.

Abstract

Rehomogenizing the Earth-Moon system A giant impact formed the Moon, and lunar rocks provide insight into that process. Young et al. found that rocks on Earth and the Moon have identical oxygen isotopes. This suggests that well-mixed material from the giant impact must have formed both the Moon and Earth's mantle. The finding also constrains the composition of the “late veneer”: material sprinkled onto Earth after the Moon-forming impact. Science , this issue p. 493

Funder

NASA Emerging Worlds

European Research Council

Sloan Foundation

NSF

U.S. Department of Energy

Shell

Carnegie Institution of Washington

University of California, Los Angeles

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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