Go and Catch a Falling Star

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Patches of deposits containing unusual mafic minerals are observed in and around some large lunar impact craters. Numerical simulations suggest that in the slowest of these impacts, asteroidal material, alien to the Moon, could have survived.

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Date Created
2013-08-16
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Language
  • eng
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  • This is the author's final manuscript. To see the article as published in Nature Geoscience, see http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1840.
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Asphaug, E. (2013). Go and catch a falling star. Nature Geoscience, 6(6), 422-423. doi:10.1038/ngeo1840

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Series
  • NATURE GEOSCIENCE
Extent
  • 4 pages
Identifier
  • Digital object identifier: 10.1038/ngeo1840
  • ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
    1752-0894
  • ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
    1752-0908