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BL
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665470
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Cudnik, Brian
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| Title & Author
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Lunar meteoroid impacts and how to observe them\ Brian Cudnik
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Springer,, c2009
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| Series Statement
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Astronomers' observing guides
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1 online resource (xv, 239 p.) :: ill. (some col.)
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| ISBN
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9781441903242 (e-isbn)
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: 1441903240 (e-isbn)
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9781441903235
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1441903232
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The Moon and meteoroids. Widespread evidence -- Lunar impact features -- Remarkable collisions -- Possible impact phenomena (PIPs) -- Beyond the Moon -- An observer's guide to lunar meteor impacts, past and present. Guide to observing impact features on the Moon -- Impacts today -- Lunar impact observation programs -- Observing impacts as they happen (with contributions by many members of the International Occultation Timing Association) -- Finding collisions -- Spurious flash or true impact event? -- Professional and amateur collaborations
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| Abstract
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The face of the Moon we see today has been substantially etched by the effects of meteor impacts. Craters on the Moon are the result of ancient impacts with large meteorites - or small asteroid-like bodies - which produced both primary craters (where the meteorites hit) and secondary craters (where material hurled high above the surface crashed back down). Even some of the vast lunar 'seas' - actually basalt plains from ancient volcanic eruptions - may have been the result of impacts that triggered lava outflows. The era of major impacts on the Moon may have passed, but lunar meteorites may we
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Lunar craters
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Meteoroids
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Meteorite craters
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Moon, Observations
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| Dewey Classification
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523.3
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QB591.C83 2009eb
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QB591.C83 2009eb
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