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Impact object diameters from crater diameters?
      07/26/08 10:58 PM

Everytime I look at a crater on the moon I wonder what size object it took to punch it out. Is there some rough estimate for the size of the object that created it from the size of the crater it made?

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* Impact object diameters from crater diameters? astrokido 07/26/08 10:58 PM
. * Re: Impact object diameters from crater diameters? Jim Mosher   07/28/08 09:36 AM
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