March 12, 2011
Arrowheads, Tomahawks And Big Guns
images from Peter Schultz and A.M. Stickle, Brown University
Not quite the Columbiad of Jules Verne, but close. Rather than shooting for the Moon, Peter Schultz shoots to make the Moon, or at least to model the craters and basins. In a talk that Chuck and I attended at Maurice Collins
P.S. Chuck is on his way home tonight, so he asked me to fill in for him for LPOD today. I wish Chuck safe travels home, and I thank him so much for everything he has done in making this visit an experience of a lifetime! It was so nice to finally meet him in person!
Technical Details
Arrowhead Craters and Tomahawk Basins: Signatures of Oblique Impacts at Large Scales
P. H. Schultz, A. M. Stickle
42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011), Abstract #2611
Related Links
http://www.space.com/1222-gunning-crash-rehearsing-deep-impact-comet-collision.html
LPSC 42
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