Making crater chains on the Earth and moon with planetary tidal forces

Details Making crater chains on the Earth and moon with planetary tidal forces Making crater chains on the Earth and moon with planetary tidal forces

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..141b&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 141.

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Lunar Craters, Earth Surface, Lunar Tides, Earth Tides, Asteroids, Comets, Mathematical Models, Cratering

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Crater chains, thought to form when 'rabble-pile' asteroids or comets are pulled apart by planetary tides, may have been identified on both the Earth and the moon. By modeling the tidal disruption of such objects by the Earth and moon, we find that enough bodies have been disrupted by the Earth over the last 3.8 billion years to account for one or two lunar crater chains. The disruption rate of bodies near the moon, however, is too low to explain any terrestrial crater chains.

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