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The majority of the craters found on the Moon and other solar system bodies were created by the impact of meteoroids. We drop objects onto various surface soil material and examine the craters that are created.
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Golden, L.M. (2013). Experiment 8 The Formation of Impact Craters. In: Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3311-8_8
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