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Chapter 6, Figure 13
Figure
6.13
(A) The birth
of the Moon. (B) This computer simulation 1–4 shows how the Moon might have
formed when a Mars-sized body hit the young Earth and splashed out debris
that later assembled into the Moon. The scale changes between the frames:
(1) is a close-up of the impact; (4) shows the newly assembled Moon (lower
left) orbiting the Earth, which is still surrounded by debris. (Courtesy A.
G. W. Cameron, Harvard Center for Astrophysics.)
