Scanning electron microscope picture of a glass spherule brought back from the Moon by Apollo 11. The spherule is about 250 microns in diameter. Photo by Tim Culler/UC Berkeley
Scanning electron microscope picture of a glass spherule brought back from the Moon by Apollo 11. The spherule is about 250 microns in diameter. Photo by Tim Culler/UC Berkeley
...a nice, fresh, new catastrophism ping list topic, from 2000. ;')
Nemesis: Does the Sun Have a 'Companion'?
SPACE dot COM | 03 April 2001 | By Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 02/10/2003 2:03:23 PM EST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/839980/posts
http://www.space.com/news/nemesis_010410.html
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"Even though we don’t know which crater was the source of each spherule, the distribution of the ages of the spherules from a single lunar site should reflect the age distribution of craters on the Moon," Muller said.
I would assume the single sample could come from an area "bombarded" at the measured peak age of the sample. I would be convinced if a sample gathered at the antipode displayed the same profile.
