Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be

GENESIS REVISED"It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond one's day-to-day experiments and look at the big picture–and the origin of the Moon is a 'big picture' question par excellence. Perhaps it makes sense that William Hartmann, one of the two scientists who unraveled the Moons biggest mystery, is not only a scientist but also a part-time artist and science fiction writer. It took someone with an artists eye and a fiction writers speculative temperament to see the big picture."This is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth that used to look vastly different from todays Earth. But, most of all, it is about a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong planted his boot into the lunar dust." -From the IntroductionMacKenzie, Dana is the author of 'Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be' with ISBN 9780471150572 and ISBN 0471150576.