Lunar Maria Formation via Quasi-Satellite(s) of Earth

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #56.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.829

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We suggest that quasi-satellites of Earth may be responsible for lunar maria causing impacts. Quasi-satellites are asteroids that exhibit a 1:1 orbital resonance with a host planet. We discuss numerical experiments of quasi-satellites and the results of other studies that suggest that the Earth gravitationally focused planetesimals into such orbits that may have impacted the moon early in the history of the solar system. We address the distribution of maria on the surface of the moon.

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