X-Message-Number: 19292
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Badger <>
Subject: Re: Why the moon has round craters.

My colleague, George Smith, wrote:

> Apparently no one knows.

Someone in the Ask the Expert section of the
Scientific American web-site seems to think they know.



http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000DBCF7-C08B-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7&catID=3&topicID=22

You may have to do some copy & pasting to make the
above link work. Sorry.

SciAm's explanation seems to jives with D. Broderick's
reference, and I suspect it is the consensus among
expert opinions.

OK, I get it that we don't know as much as we think we
do or whatever variant of that theme is being
advocated here. 

But, the more interesting point that I take away from
this exchange is the disconcerting notion that the
counter-intuitive nature of this phenomenon has never
occurred to me. It's unsettling to consider what other
obvious misconceptions I'm operating under.

Scott Badger

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