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Moon’s Formation from Gas-Dust Cloud: New Geochemical and Astronomical Data

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The original model of the Moon’ formation from the common with the Earth protoplanetary dust-gas cloud, developed by academician Galimov E. M. at Vernadsky Institute RAS, is considered. Recent geochemical data on siderophile elements and water at the Moon’ mantle have been studied. The possibilities of the originally used numerical framework for the accretion’ study are expanded, it is shown that the analytical extension provides correct results.

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The author expresses his gratitude to ac. Marov M. Y. and corresponding member of RAS Kolotov V. P. for pointing out the original measurements of water content in Vernadsky Institute RAS using samples of lunar regolith delivered by Luna-24 station. Graphic processing of the drawings was done by Fedulova Valeria. This work is conducted under the GEOKHI RAS state assignment.

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Voropaev, S.A. (2023). Moon’s Formation from Gas-Dust Cloud: New Geochemical and Astronomical Data. In: Kolotov, V.P., Bezaeva, N.S. (eds) Advances in Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09883-3_20

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