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Moon Rocks Help Form New Picture of Early Moon and Earth

Most people only ever encounter rubidium as the purple color in fireworks, but the obscure metal has helped two University of Chicago scientists propose a theory of how the Moon may have formed from studying Moon rocks. Conducted in the lab of Prof. Nicolas Dauphas, whose pioneering research studies the isotopic makeup of rocks from Earth ...

Troy Oakes

Large object hitting the Earth.