Description The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon\'s genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon.
Science journalist Dana MacKenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion.
Description The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon\'s genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon