Craters

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2155l&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2155. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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Craters are bowl-shaped cavities which have been formed by an explosion. On planetary bodies, the few examples of past or present volcanism (Mars, Venus, Io) are not of the explosive type. Therefore, nearly all craters on PLANETARY SURFACES result from the impact of a METEOROID at very high speeds (tens of km s-1). PLANETARY EXPLORATION has demonstrated that impact craters are ubiquitous features...

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