South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA Basin)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4420.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4420. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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The largest and deepest multiringed impact structure on the Moon. It lies almost entirely on the Moon's farside, and extends for over 2500 km from the south polar region to the 135 km diameter crater Aitken, at 16.8 °S, 173.4 °E. The impact that produced the basin is estimated to have occurred around 4.1 billion years ago, near the beginning of the solar system's great cratering episode known as ...

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