Joy, KH;
Crawford, IA;
Curran, NM;
Zolensky, M;
Fagan, AF;
Kring, DA;
(2016)
The Moon: An Archive of Small Body Migration in the Solar System.
Earth, Moon and Planets
, 118
(2)
pp. 133-158.
10.1007/s11038-016-9495-0.
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Abstract
The Moon is an archive of impact cratering in the Solar System throughout the past 4.5 billion years. It preserves this record better than larger, more complex planets like the Earth, Mars and Venus, which have largely lost their ancient crusts through geological reprocessing and hydrospheric/atmospheric weathering. Identifying the parent bodies of impactors (i.e. asteroid bodies, comets from the Kuiper belt or the Oort Cloud) provides geochemical and chronological constraints for models of Solar System dynamics, helping to better inform our wider understanding of the evolution of the Solar System and the transfer of small bodies between planets. In this review article, we discuss the evidence for populations of impactors delivered to the Moon at different times in the past. We also propose approaches to the identification and characterisation of meteoritic material on the Moon in the context of future lunar exploration efforts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Moon: An Archive of Small Body Migration in the Solar System |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11038-016-9495-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11038-016-9495-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Moon; Regolith; Meteorites; Meteorite-survivability; Impact-bombardment; Lunar exploration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1530694 |
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