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This paper calls attention to the fact that the distribution of grazing impacts on Mars, as described by Schultz and Lutz-Garihan (1982), agrees with the distribution predictable by the theory of planetary axial rotation based on the transmission of mass and angular momentum from a satellite system to its primary (Barricelli, 1972). A few additional implications of the theory are pointed out.
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Barricelli, N.A. Interpretation of grazing impacts on Mars by the axial rotation theory. Earth Moon Planet 31, 75–78 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00058113
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