Scientists said the age of the formation of the moon, it was formed 100 million years later than anticipated, said during an online speech at the international youth scientific school "space exploration: theory and practice", conducted by MSTU named after Bauman in conjunction with the "Roskosmos", scientific Director of the space research Institute of RAS lion Green.
"there is a lot of calculations, a lot of controversy. And the better we understand this most interesting time. Just a few days ago there was a very interesting article that estimated the time in which the upper crust of the moon, which represented the ocean froze. It turned out to be longer than the scientists thought of it earlier. The moon is younger by about a hundred million years. And now the most severe rating that the Moon was formed 4 billion 425 million years ago," he said.
According to the Green data, this conclusion was made by scientists at the University of Munster in Germany. They found that complete solidification of the surface of the moon it took 200 million years old, not 35 million years as previously thought.
The scientist said that there are two versions of the formation of the moon – forming together with the Land out of the total protoplanetary disk, or after the Earth’s collision with planet Theia, about the size of Mars.
