Tidally driven remelting around 4.35 billion years ago indicates the Moon is oldOPEN ACCESS 

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Francis Nimmo, Thorsten Kleine, Alessandro Morbidelli Nature, Volume 636, pages 598–602, Published: 18 December 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The last giant impact on Earth is thought to have formed the Moon. The timing…

High-precision U-Pb zircon dating identifies a major magmatic event on the Moon at 4.338 GaOPEN ACCESS 

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Mélanie Barboni Dawid Szymanowski Blair Schoene Nicolas Dauphas Zhe J. Zhang Xi Chen Kevin D. McKeegan Science Advances24 Jul 2024Vol 10, Issue 30 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Moon has had a complex history,…

SIMS U-Pb dating of micro-zircons in the lunar meteorites Dhofar 1528 and Dhofar 1627OPEN ACCESS 

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Bidong Zhang, Yangting Lin, Jialong Hao, Devin L. Schrader, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Randy L. Korotev, William K. Hartmann, Audrey Bouvier MAPSVersion of Record online: 19 September 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “About half of the…

Nano- and micro-structures in lunar zircon from Apollo 15 and 16 impactites: implications for age interpretationsOPEN ACCESS 

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Monika A. Kusiak, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Dennis Vanderliek, Harry Becker, Franziska Wilke, Anja Schreiber & Richard Wirth Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Volume 177, Article number: 112 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite impact processes are…

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