This article reviews our current understanding of terrestrial planet formation. The focus is on
computer simulations of the dynamical aspects of the accretion process. Throughout the …

The current state of understanding of the lunar interior is the sum of nearly four decades of
work and a range of exploration programs spanning that same time period. Missions of the …

Results of about 100 hydrodynamic simulations of potential Moon-forming impacts are
presented, focusing on the “late impact” scenario in which the lunar forming impact occurs …

As with all science, our continually developing concepts of lunar evolution are firmly tied to
both new types of observations and the integration of these observations to the known pool …

A boundary between compositionally distinct regions at a depth of about 1600 kilometers
may explain the seismological observations pertaining to Earth's lower mantle, produce the …

We perform three-dimensional N-body integrations of the final stages of terrestrial planet
formation. We report the results of 10 simulations beginning with 22–50 initial planetary …

An improved gravity model from Doppler tracking of the Lunar Prospector (LP) spacecraft
reveals three new large mass concentrations (mascons) on the nearside of the moon …

The most prominent feature on the surface of Mars is the near-hemispheric dichotomy
between the southern highlands and northern lowlands. The root of this dichotomy is a …

The quantum mechanical description of a radiation field is based on states that are
characterized by the number of photons in a particular mode; the most basic quantum states …

▪ Abstract The giant impact theory is the leading hypothesis for the origin of the Moon. This
review focuses on dynamical aspects of an impact-induced lunar formation, in particular …