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Background also see Teachers Guide Pages 1 2 photo on 8 12 and photo on 13 The circular features so obvious on the Moons surface are impact craters formed when impactors smashed into the surface The explosion and excavation of materials at the impac. This is called an orbit The same side of the Moon always faces the Earth It takes one month for the Moon to go around the Earth The Moon is a little more than 200000 miles from the Earth It is about the size of the Earth That means the Earth is fou Nadine G. Barlow. Dept. Physics and Astronomy. Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010. Nadine.Barlow@nau.edu. Office: 928-523-5452 Cell: 928-600-9253. Co-authors: Joseph M. Boyce (U. HI) and Lionel Wilson (Lancaster U.). Francis Nimmo. Last Week - Volcanism. How and why are melts generated?. Increase in mantle potential temperature; or. Reduction in solidus temperature (e.g. water); or. Thinning of the lithosphere. How do melts ascend towards the surface?. Lunar plains & craters. Manned lunar exploration. The lunar interior. The Moon. ’. s geologic history. The formation of the Moon. Moon Data (Table 10-1). Moon Data: Numbers. Diameter. : 3,476. .. Vance Licht. Things people have thought to make the moon landing false.. Apparent “wind” blowing on the moon?. Two beams of light from spotlights supposed to be the sun.. Footprints staying on the moon’s surface when there is no moisture on the moon whatsoever.. STEVEN JAY STEELE . . SIZE. . MOON. THE SIZE OF THE MOON . IS . 3,474 KM. . . EARTH. THE EARTH IS 12,742 KILOMETERS WIDE. LANDFORMS/CRATERS. . Lunar plains & craters. Manned . lunar . exploration. The lunar interior. The Moon. ’. s geologic history. The formation of the Moon. Moon Data (Table 10-1). Moon Data: Numbers. Diameter. : 3,476. Chapter . 2. Copyright © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. FORCES AFFECTING. GROWTH AND CHANGE. The changes that are occurring now in the business environment are tremendous. Managers must understand the various forces that are driving these changes and affecting their businesses in order to be effective. Chapter . 2. Copyright © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. FORCES AFFECTING. GROWTH AND CHANGE. The changes that are occurring now in the business environment are tremendous. Managers must understand the various forces that are driving these changes and affecting their businesses in order to be effective. Prentice Hall Earth Science. 22.3 Objectives. Describe . how the physical features of the lunar surface were created. Explain . the history of the moon . 22.3 Vocabulary. crater. ray. mare. rille. lunar regolith. What Are The Type s of Volcanoes ? kinds of volcanoes to see. Laidlaw Volcano and Pillar Butte are Shield Volcanoes that form when liquid rock oozes and flows out of a central vent. Pilot Butte properties of randomly. oriented basaltic blocks from Lonar crater . ejecta. , India. Md. Arif. 1. , N. Basavaiah. 1. and S. Misra. 2. 1. Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), New Panvel, . Navi. McGetchin. , Settle & Head EPSL 20 (1973) . RADIAL THICKNESS VARIATION IN IMPACT CRATER EJECTA:. IMPLICATIONS FOR LUNAR BASIN DEPOSITS. t = 0.14R. 0.74. . (r/R). -3.0. . What is used here. McGetchin takes R to be final crater radius, not “transient crater radius” as erroneously indicated by Melosh.. By. Eric Calderwood. Keri Davies. Paul Freathy. Institute . for Retail Studies. University of Stirling. Scotland. Background. IRS was commissioned to examine . the factors that . influenced . the sustainability .