Multiple Impacts in the Earth's Cratering History
Abstract
Post-bombardment periods of increased impact flux on Earth are probably due to the decay of captured Apollo object group orbits. The origin of the Messier binary impact structure on the Moon implies the breakup of a single impactor as the origin of a Cretaceous/Tertiary multiple impact.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- September 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00117188
- Bibcode:
- 1989EM&P...46..201T