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Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-not-no-moon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."

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  1. Oops, need more coffee by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Somehow the link to the Wilipedia article isn't to wikipedia but to science.slashdot.org. The wiki article on petrology is here.

    Sorry.

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