Origin and implications of non-radial Imbrium Sculpture on the Moon

Peter H. Schultz () and David A. Crawford
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Peter H. Schultz: Brown University, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
David A. Crawford: Sandia National Laboratories, P. O. Box 5800, MS 0840, Sandia National Laboratories

Nature, 2016, vol. 535, issue 7612, 391-394

Abstract: The widespread rimmed grooves, lineations and elongate craters extending from the Imbrium impact basin on the Moon, termed the Imbrium Sculpture, includes a non-radial component that is used to infer that the Imbrium impactor was the size of a proto-planet—about half the diameter of Vesta.

Date: 2016
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