[meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 1 04:01:18 2006
Message-ID: <20060901080116.90342.qmail_at_web50909.mail.yahoo.com>

Couple of points


>>One small meteorite was recovered in the Apollo
Program (Hadley Rill?).(Details anyone?) Didn't it
possess impact pockmarks?

Yes. There's one of the Apollo photos clearly shows an
ipact mark. A tiny crater in a large rock. I believe
this shows that there's not likely to be much of
anything left on the moon if it hits it.

Statistically, if memory serves me right, lunar
impacts impacts are rarer than Earth ones due to the
weak gravity of the moon and not just it's smaller
cross-section.

Rob McC

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Received on Fri 01 Sep 2006 04:01:15 AM PDT