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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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- Go and Catch a Falling Star
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- Asphaug, Erik (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
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2013-08-16
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- Digital object identifier: 10.1038/ngeo1840
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1752-0894
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1752-0908
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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, opens in a new window.
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Asphaug, E. (2013). Go and catch a falling star. Nature Geoscience, 6(6), 422-423. doi:10.1038/ngeo1840