It is now understood that the accretion of terrestrial planets naturally involves giant collisions, the moon-forming impact being a well known example.
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Impact events: January 2014
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- 28 Jan: NASA Observes Day of Remembrance
- 28 Jan: NASA FISO Telecon: Findings and Strategies for Enabling Human Habitation during Remote Destination Space Transit
- 28 Jan: Free Public Talk on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto
- 29 Jan: SESE New Discoveries Lecture Series: Building Earth-like planets
- 29 Jan: Delta II Launch of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
- 30 Jan: Queen's Space Conference
- 4 Feb: FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
- 4 Feb: Workshop on Early Solar System Bombardment III
- 8 Feb: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch of DSCOVR
- 11 Feb: Arianespace Launch of the ESA Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) on a Vega Rocket
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