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The scientific society has at all times taken interest in the origin of the Earth and Moon. The article analyses the key problems of the formation of the Earth-Moon system and the evolution of geospheres.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Adushkin, A.V. Vityazev, 2007, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2007, Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 396–402.
Academician Vitalii Vasil’evich Adushkin is an RAS advisor and scientific supervisor at the RAS Institute of Geosphere Dynamics. Andrei Vasil’evich Vityazev, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), is head of the laboratory at the RAS Institute of Geosphere Dynamics.
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Adushkin, V.V., Vityazev, A.V. The origin and evolution of the Earth: A contemporary view. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 77, 232–238 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331607030045
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