Kondratyev, B. P.
Article History
Received: 20 October 2017
Accepted: 30 July 2018
First Online: 10 August 2018
Change Date: 26 February 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: Correction to: Astrophys Space Sci (2018) 363:186 ExternalRef removed After publication of the original article, the author made a series of checks on the main results. In general, the results of calculations were confirmed. Nevertheless, in numerical calculations in the second of the mechanisms presented there, an error was made (the deflection angle ‘alpha’ was taken with the opposite sign), which eventually led to an incorrect result for ‘math expression’. After correction, the formula (48) will have the form ‘math expression’. After amendment in the sign of the angle ‘alpha’, Eq. (57) gives the value of ‘math expression’ (instead of the previous ‘math expression’). The solution to Eq. (57) is shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 1 The dependence of the normalized to ‘math expression’ distance ‘math expression’ from the Earth, on which the Moon could have been formed in the early era of the elongation ‘varepsilon’ of its figure. The strokes show the results of calculationsAccording to the corrected result, the Moon was formed in the annular zone at a distance of 3 to 4 average radii of the modern Earth. This result seems to be consistent with the modern idea that the Moon was formed as a result of a giant impact in the immediate vicinity of Proto-Earth.