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THE MOON-EARTH INTERACTION`S SHARE INTO THE THERMAL BALANCE OF THE EARTH
Abstract
Starting from the recently proposed hypothesis [1] on the Moon formation from the ejection of terrestrial mantle material in a heat-propelled jet, triggered by a run-away natural georeactor at Earth’s core-mantle boundary, we estimate the energy losses in the Earth-Moon system, develop dynamics of this process and compare produced value of the heat with known estimations for heat produced by heavy radionuclides fusion in the Earth body. We conclude that the values of heat produced in these two processes are comparable in long-time scale, rather than in short-time scale. Therefore these differences should be taken into account when considering the early evolution of the Earth. We propose a possible direct test of the hypothesis proposed in [1].
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