Ernst Julius Öpik's (1916) note on the theory of explosion cratering on the Moon's surface-The complex case of a long-overlooked benchmark paper

High‐velocity impact as a common phenomenon in planetary evolution was ignored until well into the twentieth century, mostly because of inadequate understanding of cratering processes. An eight‐page note, published in Russian by the young Ernst Julius Öpik, a great Estonian astronomer, was among the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Meteoritics & planetary science 2014-10, Vol.49 (10), p.1851-1874
Hauptverfasser: Racki, Grzegorz, Koeberl, Christian, Viik, Tõnu, Jagt-Yazykova, Elena A., Jagt, John W. M.
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