The Meteoritic Environment of the Moon

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Feb 1967

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1967rspsa.296..304w&link_type=abstract

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 296, Issue 1446, pp. 304-315

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Diverse evidence concerning the probable particulate influx on the Moon is assembled along with estimates of the rather large uncertainties. The masses under consideration range from 10-14 to 10+18 g, the total estimated influx amounting to the order of 4 x 10-16 g cm-2 s-1. The occurrence of large lunar craters assumed to have accumulated over 4 x 10^9 y appears consistent with the expected production rate by Apollo-type asteroids. Cometary nuclei may or may not have contributed significantly. There is possibly a dearth of smaller craters of diameter less than 50 m as compared to the probable production by meteoritic influx. The overturn of lunar material by cratering impacts may have largely blanketed craters with diameters smaller than 3 to 30 m.

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