Shoot the Moon: Lunar Impact Craters and the Lunar Cataclysm

by

Barbara Cohen, Ph.D.
Institute for Meteoritics
University of New Mexico

Thursday, 12 July 2007
Socialization : 10:15 a.m.
Presentation : 10:30 a.m.
Location: NSSTC, Room 2096
320 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805

The Moon preserves thousands of impact craters that record the shared impact his tory of the Earth and Moon. One chapter in this history, the controversial "lunar cataclysm" or "late heavy bombardment", was a short period of intense bom bardment in the Earth-Moon system 4 billion years ago, when early and intense im pacts must have affected Earth's atmosphere, environment, and early life. I will discuss this important epoch in lunar history, our framework so far based on sa mples, remote sensing, and modeling, and further critical tests of this hypothes is that may be conducted in a new age of lunar exploration.

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