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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

For the first time, this book relates for a general audience how lunar scientists arrived at a theory of the Moon's birth that fits all the available facts. Travel backwards in time with science journalist Dana Mackenzie, from the slopes where the astronauts collected their Moon rocks to the ocean of magma from which those rocks crystallized and finally all the way back to the world-shaking collision that created the Moon four-and-a-half billion years ago. This collision, the Big Splat, destroyed one planet and forever changed our own-perhaps even creating the conditions in which life could evolve.

(Extracted from the dust cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Contents.

-Introduction: Genesis Revised.

-1. A Highly Practical Stone.

-2. The Stone Star.

-3. Kepler Laughed.

-4. The Clockwork Solar System.

-5. Daughter Moon.

-6. Captive Moon.

-7. Sister Moon.

-8. Renaissance and Controversy.

-9. "A Little Science on the Moon".

-10. When Worlds Collide.

-11. The Kona Consensus.

-12. Introducing Theia.

-Appendix: Did We Really Go to the Moon?

-Glossary.

-References.

-Acknowledgments.

-Index.