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Nature 389, 327-328 (25 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38596

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It's not easy to make the Moon

Jack J. Lissauer1

Theory has it that the Moon grew within a disk of material splashed out of the Earth by a body the size of Mars. According to new calculations, however, the impacting body was at least twice that size.

  1. Jack J. Lissauer is in the Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA.