Francis Nimmo—Early tidal heating of the Moon may have turned it into a “super Io” with a long-lived magma ocean and extreme heat pipe volcanism. This may explain the distribution of ages of the oldest lunar zircons. #LPSC2025
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Sure, I'll buy it. The Moon probably formed *really* close in, and the tidal heating was likely fierce. I wonder whether there wasn't a corresponding effect on Earth, for that matter.
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