THE IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY CRATERING TO AGE CONSTRAINTS ON PLANETARY SURFACES

By A. S. McEwen, Edward B. Bierhaus. 2006

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. S. Byrne
2. B. Ivanov
3. Greg Michael
4. Stuart J. Robbins
5. A. S. McEwen
6. John P. Grotzinger
7. Ralph E. Milliken
8. Gerhard Neukum

In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. S. Byrne
2. Stuart J. Robbins
3. Greg Michael
4. A. S. McEwen
5. James W. Head III
6. Gerhard Neukum
7. B. Ivanov
8. C. Dundas

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• The current martian cratering rate (2010, background): “Distant secondaries are more spatially random and are difficult to identify as secondaries; we know that distant secondaries are abundant on the Moon, Mars (e.g. McEwen and Bierhaus, 2006), and Mercury (Strom et al., 2011).”
• What are the real constraints on the existence and magnitude of the late heavy bombardment (2007, background): “[The role of the steep branch of the impactor size distribution in churning the surficial regolith should be the same whether or not the impactors are predominantly secondary ejecta from larger craters, as is advocated by McEwen and Bierhaus (2006), or are part of the heliocentric population.]”
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) (2007, background): “tion function for small primary craters is poorly known [McEwen et al., 2005; McEwen and Bierhaus, 2006].”
• Planetary surface dating from crater size-frequency distribution measurements: Partial resurfacing events and statistical age uncertainty (2010, background): “…craters, where recognisable as clusters or chains, should be excluded together with the vicinity they occupy (the issue of secondary cratering is discussed at length in McEwen and Bierhaus, 2006; Dundas and McEwen, 2007; Hartmann, 2007; Werner et al., 2009; Neukum et al., 2010-this volume).”
• The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) during MRO’s Primary Science Phase (PSP) (2010, background): “These large fresh craters are also the source of huge numbers of secondary craters, some of which correlate with crater rays apparent in THEMIS nighttime images (e.g., McEwen and Bierhaus, 2006; Preblich et al., 2006; Tornabene et al., 2006).”
• A New Global Database of Lunar Impact Craters >1–2 km: 1. Crater Locations and Sizes, Comparisons With Published Databases, and Global Analysis (2019, background): “(2) This database contains a mixture of primary and secondary craters, and secondary craters are more likely to be elliptical due to the lower impact energies involved (McEwen & Bierhaus, 2006, and references therein).”