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Title    Evidence Of Planet That Formed Moon May have been Found In Rock Samples
Date    Friday June 06 2014, @01:52PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the theory-of-theia dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/06/06/1241253

lhsi writes:

The BBC has a report that evidence has been found in lunar rock samples of a planetismal (called Theia) that was thought to have crashed into the Earth to form the Moon. The conclusion is based on a difference in oxygen isotope ratios detected in lunar rock samples returned from the Apollo space missions versus terrestrial samples.

The report is published in the journal Science [abstract]; report is paywalled.

Links
  1. "lhsi" - https://soylentnews.org/~lhsi/
  2. "evidence has been found in lunar rock samples" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27688511
  3. "Theia" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)
  4. "abstract" - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1146
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