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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19292