| Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation RM Canup, E Asphaug Nature 412 (6848), 708-712, 2001 | 1076 | 2001 |
| Simulations of a late lunar-forming impact RM Canup Icarus 168 (2), 433-456, 2004 | 687 | 2004 |
| Forming a Moon with an Earth-like composition via a giant impact RM Canup Science 338 (6110), 1052-1055, 2012 | 561 | 2012 |
| Thermal and magmatic evolution of the Moon CK Shearer, PC Hess, MA Wieczorek, ME Pritchard, EM Parmentier, ... Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 60 (1), 365-518, 2006 | 503 | 2006 |
| Formation of the Galilean satellites: Conditions of accretion RM Canup, WR Ward The Astronomical Journal 124 (6), 3404, 2002 | 470 | 2002 |
| On the character and consequences of large impacts in the late stage of terrestrial planet formation CB Agnor, RM Canup, HF Levison Icarus 142 (1), 219-237, 1999 | 463 | 1999 |
| A common mass scaling for satellite systems of gaseous planets RM Canup, WR Ward Nature 441 (7095), 834-839, 2006 | 366 | 2006 |
| A giant impact origin of Pluto-Charon RM Canup Science 307 (5709), 546-550, 2005 | 335 | 2005 |
| Dynamics of lunar formation RM Canup Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 42, 441-475, 2004 | 306 | 2004 |
| Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk S Ida, RM Canup, GR Stewart Nature 389 (6649), 353-357, 1997 | 258 | 1997 |
| Origin of Saturn’s rings and inner moons by mass removal from a lost Titan-sized satellite RM Canup Nature 468 (7326), 943-946, 2010 | 180 | 2010 |
| Lunar-forming collisions with pre-impact rotation RM Canup Icarus 196 (2), 518-538, 2008 | 161 | 2008 |
| The role of giant planets in terrestrial planet formation HF Levison, C Agnor The Astronomical Journal 125 (5), 2692, 2003 | 153 | 2003 |
| On a giant impact origin of Charon, Nix, and Hydra RM Canup The Astronomical Journal 141 (2), 35, 2010 | 146 | 2010 |
| Origin of the Earth and Moon RM Canup, K Righter University of Arizona Press, 2000 | 139 | 2000 |
| Lunar volatile depletion due to incomplete accretion within an impact-generated disk RM Canup, C Visscher, J Salmon, B Fegley Jr Nature geoscience 8 (12), 918-921, 2015 | 108 | 2015 |
| Accretion in the Roche zone: Coexistence of rings and ringmoons RM Canup, LW Esposito Icarus 113 (2), 331-352, 1995 | 106 | 1995 |
| Accretion of the Moon from an impact-generated disk RM Canup, LW Esposito Icarus 119 (2), 427-446, 1996 | 104 | 1996 |
| Circumplanetary disk formation WR Ward, RM Canup The Astronomical Journal 140 (5), 1168, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Accretion of the terrestrial planets and the Earth–Moon system RM Canup, CB Agnor Origin of the Earth and Moon 30, 113, 2000 | 98 | 2000 |
