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An 800 Myr-old Impact Shower on the Terrestrial Planets from the Breakup of the Eulalia Parent Body

  • Authors: William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlický, Melissa Dykhuis, Nicolle Zellner

William F. Bottke et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 17.

The number and sizes of Eulalia family impacts on the Moon are compared to the estimated projectile sizes responsible for creating the large lunar craters with ages comparable to that of the Copernicus crater. The lunar craters (represented as red dots) are from Figure 2, while the black curve represents the lunar impact flux calculated in Figure 16. The error bars for the number of craters reflect ﹩\sqrt{2}﹩ uncertainties. Our analysis shows that the modeled Eulalia impact shower is consistent with the observed data within the stated uncertainties.

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