Thanks to the discovery by an international team of scientists of a "geological clock" based on measurements of the Earth's interior and computer simulations of the protoplanetary disk from which the Earth and other planets later formed, the age has been determined. exact of the Moon.
According to the geochemical measurements of the researchers after discovering a relationship between the time in which the Earth was hit by an object the size of Mars to create the Moon and the amount of material added to the Earth after that impact, that the Moon has between 95 and 35 million years after the beginning of the solar system .
The finding has been published in the journal Nature .
