Note: Preliminary Note on Lunar Cratering Rates and Absolute Time-Scales
Abstract
Solidification ages from Mare Tranquillitatis (Apollo 11) are used to compute the lunar cratering rate over the last 3.9 aeons. Results agree with estimates from more recent terrestrial cratering.
- Publication:
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Icarus
- Pub Date:
- January 1970
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0019-1035(70)90039-4
- Bibcode:
- 1970Icar...12..131H