Lunar samples, lunar accretion and the early bombardment of the moon
Abstract
The cratering history of the moon is reexamined taking data acquired over the last decade into account along with a newly accepted concept concerning the moon's origin. It is found that predictions of a heavy bombardment are not fulfilled by lunar characteristics as understood from sample and remote sensing studies, nor by lunar accretion history. There is strong evidence for the reality for a short, intense, cataclysmic bombardment at about 3.85 Ga.
- Publication:
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EOS Transactions
- Pub Date:
- March 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1029/90EO00086
- Bibcode:
- 1990EOSTr..71..313R
- Keywords:
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- Impact Melts;
- Lunar Craters;
- Meteoritic Damage;
- Basalt;
- Carbonaceous Chondrites;
- Lunar Composition;
- Lunar Evolution;
- Lunar Geology;
- Planetology: Solid Surface Planets and Satellites: Origin and evolution;
- Planetology: Solid Surface Planets and Satellites: General or miscellaneous