Are Most Small Craters Primaries or Secondaries: Insights from Asteroid Collisional/Dynamical Evolution Models

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Mar 2005

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36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 14-18, 2005, in League City, Texas, abstract no.1489

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We determined the main belt and NEA size distributions (SD) for D >
10 cm bodies over the last 4.6 Gy. The slope of our NEA SD at small
sizes is shallower than the lunar/martian crater SD. Because crater
scaling laws cannot explain the difference, most small craters must be
secondaries.

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