Theia's Collision With The Early Earth - Dry Or Wet Moon?
- Author(s)
- Rudolf Dvorak, Birgit Loibnegger, Christoph Burger, Thomas Maindl, Christoph Schäfer
- Abstract
Our study exist of three separated parts concerning the formation of the Moon due to a catastrophic collision of a Mars-sized body - often referred to as Theia - with the early Earth. The first one deals with planet-formation in the early Solar System, the second one with the dynamical evolution of the planets Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn and an additional planet (Theia) between Earth and Mars, and the third one with the proposed giant collision itself and its outcome concerning masses and water contents of the resulting bodies (or fragments), computed via Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Publication date
- 04-2016
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/theias-collision-with-the-early-earth--dry-or-wet-moon(9d78f42a-2fc5-43a0-8ade-8cdfa9ad6dea).html