finding impact deposits on the moon?

"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
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George wrote:
"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
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George wrote:

"Joe Strout" wrote in message
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There must be places on the lunar surface where asteroids have
impacted
"gently" enough to leave behind a noticeable deposit of non-lunar
material. I'm thinking particularly of the sort of asteroids that
produce iron meteorites on Earth.

Have any such impact deposits be found? Would it be possible to
locate
them using existing data sets?

Thank you,
Joe Strout


I think it is pie in the sky at the present time. But if I had to make
a
suggestion, I'd say try the Aristarchus plateau. That would be the
most
obviously place I would start my search.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ch&sa=N&tab=wi

George

Any asteroid coming in, will be dropping from
a very large distance,and in doing so, will
get added almost the moon escape velocity.
So there will not be any gentle touchdowns,
unless you use a braking rocket engine.


Umm, ok. And this is relevant to the discussion, how?

George
See first part about a gentle impact,
anything faster then 2km/sec will never be gentle.

Why would a 1 km/s impact be considered gentle?

George