Study on Moon's Formation (VIDEO)

University of California - San Diego

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Radioactive glass found after the first nuclear test bomb explosion at the Trinity site in New Mexico is used by Scripps Oceanography professor James Day to examine theories about the Moon's formation.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego

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