Sentence examples for moon formation from inspiring English sources

"There are several important implications of this late moon formation that have not yet been worked out," Richard Carlson, of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.

The singers stood in a half-moon formation in front of Mr. Hetland, with a phalanx of chairs spreading across the loft.

Danny Briere gave the Flyers a 3-2 late late in the first period with a close-in shot while all five Chicago skaters arrayed themselves motionlessly in a half-moon formation in front of Niemi.

In the Battle of Artemisium, fighting in a defensive half-moon formation, they suffered as well as inflicted heavy losses, and they knew that they must retire even before they heard that their small holding force on land had been destroyed at Thermopylae.

Back in 2012 two groups of scientists presented computer models that show an alternative story of Earth-moon formation.

Far more of the moon may be made of material from Earth than previously thought, according to a new study that may contradict the reigning moon-formation theory.

Yes, the samples with which they returned have led to a deep understanding of the moon's formation and history.

The researchers suggest that the lunar water's scarcity and uneven distribution arose during the moon's formation from a hot mess of gas and molten rock 4.5 billion years ago.

But in recent years, analyses of chemical and isotopic records preserved in tiny rock crystals have shown that conditions as early as a couple of hundred million years after the moon's formation were relatively mild and possibly conducive to life.

What's needed next, Lunine adds, are hypotheses and tests that would allow scientists to determine whether Titan's ammonia accreted during the moon's formation or was delivered much later possibly during the Late Heavy Bombardment by comets and other icy bodies.

Now, two independent groups have reanalyzed the Apollo data using modern but very different techniques, and both teams say they have detected lunar seismologists' prime target: a core of iron that is still molten 4.5 billion years after the moon's formation.