The moon and the origin of life
arXiv:astro-ph/0112399 · doi:10.1023/A:1017082925182
Abstract
Earth is unusual in bearing life, and in having a large moon. A number of authors have suggested a possible connection between the two, e.g. through lunar stabilisation of the earth's obliquity, or through the effects of the oceanic tides. The various suggestions are reviewed.
7 pages, accepted for publication in Earth, Moon and Planets