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Professor Tony Padilla on life on a "donut planet" - leading to discussion about how the Earth and Moon formed.
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Tony is a physicist at the University of Nottingham.
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The Origin of the Moon Within a Terrestrial Synestia: doi.org/10.1002/2017JE005333

Tony Padilla: nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

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