Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1966
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1966natur.210.1347m&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 210, Issue 5043, pp. 1347 (1966).
Physics
Scientific paper
THE hypothesis proposed by Kopal1 concerning the origin of the lunar maria is very interesting. However, it is important to note that the distribution of lunar craters on the Earth-turned hemisphere is far from uniform. There are significant, well-marked chains approximately aligned with the central meridian as seen from Earth; in the west (classical sense) the chain to which Vendelinus and Langrenus belong; near the centre, the Walter and the Ptolemaeus chains; in the east, the Grimaldi chain, and so on. The suggestion by Baldwin2, according to which the alignments are not real and are due to lighting effects, does not fit the facts. I have discussed this matter elsewhere3,4. Particularly important, however, is the conclusion that the well-formed maria fit in to the general pattern; it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that, for example, the Mare Crisium is simply a large member of the Vendelinus chain. To introduce a separate origin for the maria presupposes that they are of a nature basically different from that of the craters.
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