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The Stripping of Mercury’s Mantle

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To account for Mercury’s high iron content, one theory proposes that a collision with a
massive planetesimal stripped Mercury of most of its rocky mantle. (a) These
three images show a computer simulation of a nearly head-on collision
between proto-Mercury and a body one-sixth its mass
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