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Young ED, Kohl IE, Warren PH, et al. Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact. Science. 2016;351(6272):493-6doi: 10.1126/science.aad0525.
Young, E. D., Kohl, I. E., Warren, P. H., Rubie, D. C., Jacobson, S. A., & Morbidelli, A. (2016). Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact. Science (New York, N.Y.), 351(6272), 493-6. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad0525
Young, Edward D, et al. "Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 351,6272 (2016): 493-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad0525
Young ED, Kohl IE, Warren PH, Rubie DC, Jacobson SA, Morbidelli A. Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact. Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):493-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aad0525. PMID: 26823426.
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Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):493-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aad0525.

Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Edward D Young, Issaku E Kohl, Paul H Warren, David C Rubie, Seth A Jacobson, Alessandro Morbidelli

Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [email protected] [email protected].
  2. Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  3. Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, D-95490 Bayreuth, Germany.
  4. Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, D-95490 Bayreuth, Germany. Laboratoire Lagrange, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, CNRS, 06304 Nice, France.
  5. Laboratoire Lagrange, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, CNRS, 06304 Nice, France.

PMID: 26823426 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0525

Abstract

Earth and the Moon are shown here to have indistinguishable oxygen isotope ratios, with a difference in Δ'(17)O of -1 ± 5 parts per million (2 standard error). On the basis of these data and our new planet formation simulations that include a realistic model for primordial oxygen isotopic reservoirs, our results favor vigorous mixing during the giant impact and therefore a high-energy, high-angular-momentum impact. The results indicate that the late veneer impactors had an average Δ'(17)O within approximately 1 per mil of the terrestrial value, limiting possible sources for this late addition of mass to the Earth-Moon system.

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