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lunar craters

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i want to do a project on how you can tell how old some craters are from others and i need help so i can prefom it
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Re: lunar craters

Post by deleted-71827 »

Hi!
Could you please specify which type of craters you are especially interested in? By lunar craters, do you mean you would like to look into visually estimating the age of moon craters? In that case, this would be a cool link to look at-
http://imutu.com/search.php?q=dating%20craters
Otherwise, please let us know so we can better answer your question, thank you!
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." -Isaac Asimov
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Re: lunar craters

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Hi,

Here are a few more resources on age dating lunar craters:

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1489291

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC98/pdf/1423.pdf

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1960PASP...72..393K

http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/crateringrates.htm

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/Sect19_5.html

http://erode.evsc.virginia.edu/papers/c ... _lunar.pdf

http://books.google.com/books?id=7Q49AA ... 3#PPA79,M1

This looks like a rather active area of scientific investigation, and could be rather fascinating!

I wish you the very best of success in this project.

Barrett Tomlinson
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