Observatory: New Insight on Moon’s Origins
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 17:20
in Astronomy & Space
Lunar samples show the Moon has an identical titanium composition to Earth, throwing doubt on a hypothesis that it was created when an object the size of Mars collided with Earth.
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