Early collisional heating of the moon

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May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979m%26p....20..241h&link_type=abstract

Moon and the Planets, vol. 20, May 1979, p. 241-249.

Physics

Kinetic Heating, Lunar Craters, Lunar Evolution, Deposition, Inelastic Collisions, Kinetic Energy, Lunar Surface, Particle Motion, Temperature Distribution

Scientific paper

It is shown that, on the basis of a careful reinvestigation of the accretion process of the moon, it is possible for a significant fraction of the accretional energy to be retained for heating for accretion time scales of the order 1 million to 100 million yr. This result is a consequence of the possibility of 'fall-back' craters, for which, if the infalling particle is above a certain critical radius, the crushed mass falls back into the crater bowl, so that the kinetic energy is preserved inside the crater.

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