Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth’s basal mantle anomalies

2023/11/01 by Qian Yuan, Mingming Li, Steven J. Desch +11 · 1 voice · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Planetary Science and Exploration

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06589-1

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• Not dinosnores! (Although they are always a crowd pleaser and you’ll appeal to kids young and old 🤣) Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth’s basal mantle anomalies doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 6 points, 2 comments]