most citedVapor drainage in the protolunar disk as the cause for the depletion in volatile elements of the Moon

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astro-ph.EP2024★ 48 cited

Accretion of the earliest inner solar system planetesimals beyond the water-snowline

Damanveer S. Grewal, Nicole X. Nie, Bidong Zhang +2

How and where the first generation of inner solar system planetesimals formed remains poorly understood. Potential formation regions are the silicate condensation line and water-sn…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 78 cited

Vapor drainage in the protolunar disk as the cause for the depletion in volatile elements of the Moon

Nicole X. Nie, Nicolas Dauphas

Lunar rocks are severely depleted in moderately volatile elements such as Rb, K, and Zn relative to Earth. Identifying the cause of this depletion is important for understanding ho…