[meteorite-list] Annual Moon Impacts More Frequent Then Previously Estimated

From: almitt2 at localnet.com <almitt2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:49:42 -0400
Message-ID: <20161015154942.cykjdirpj688owsk_at_webmail.localnet.com>

Hi Kelly,

Always appreciate your posts to the list! Thank you for sharing this resource.

--AL Mitterling

Quoting "Beatty, Kelly via Meteorite-list"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>:

> hi, Paul...
>
> it's an interesting revelation that demonstrates the power of LRO's

> camera. but some of the write-ups are not getting it right (e.g.
the
> New Scientist story claims "A new count of the moon?s craters has
> turned up 33 per cent more than predicted." sheesh!)
>
> if you want some context, including interviews with specialists
> beyond the press release, I recommend my S&T colleague Camille
> Carlisle's write-up here: https://is.gd/LxmxoZ
>
>
> clear skies,
> Kelly
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Paul via Meteorite-list
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Annual Moon Impacts More Frequent Then
> Previously Estimated
>
> The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought Daily News,
> October 12, 2016
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108929-the-moon-has-hundreds-more-craters-than-we-thought/
>
> How old is our Moon? Hundreds of previously unseen craters could
> finally unlock its true age: New estimates suggest 180 craters of
at
> least ten metres in diameter form each year by Liat Clark, Wired,
>
> A facelift for the Moon every 81,000 years, October 12, 2016
> http://phys.org/news/2016-10-facelift-moon-years.html
>
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-reveals-lunar-surface-features-younger.html
>
> The paper is:
>
> Speyerer, E. J., R. Z. Povilaitis, M. S. Robinson, P. C. Thomas,
And
> R. V. Wagner, 2016, Quantifying crater production and regolith
> overturn on the Moon with temporal imaging.
> Nature. Vol. 538, pp. 215?218 (13 October 2016)
doi:10.1038/nature19829
> http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19829
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
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Received on Sat 15 Oct 2016 03:49:42 PM PDT