Remote visual detection of impacts on the lunar surface

Details Remote visual detection of impacts on the lunar surface Remote visual detection of impacts on the lunar surface

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..975m&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M p 975-976 (SEE N94-16173 03-91)

Physics

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Lunar Surface, Meteorite Collisions, Meteorites, Meteoritic Composition, Meteoroids, Remote Sensing, Detection, Infrared Radiation, Plasmas (Physics), Plumes, Silicon Dioxide

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We propose a novel method of remotely observing impacts on the airless Moon that may extend the present data base on meteoroids down to 1 m in diameter. Meteorites or comets of radius approximately 1-100 m are burnt away or dispersed in the atmospheres of the Earth and Venus. However, when such objects strike the Moon they deposit their energy in a small initial volume, forming a plasma plume whose visible and infrared radiation may be visible from the Earth. We consider impacts of model SiO2 projectiles on the surface of an SiO2 model Moon.

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