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When asteriods and meteroids hit into the planets. They will impact and maek a crater.
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What is A bowl shaped hole on the surface of a planet or moon that was caused by the impact of meteorite?
This is known as an impact crater. Please see the related link.
What is lunar craters?
It's a crater on the surface of the Moon, probably the result of an asteroid impact.
How does the height of the object or distance from the surface affect the impact crater?
Due to height and pressure
How might geologists distinguish an impact crater on earth such as Meteor Crater in Arizona from a volcanic feature?
A large meteoric impact such as Meteor Crater in Arizona, displaces the sedimentary rock that has existed before impact. On the rim of Meteor Crater are displaced boulders from lower depositional areas. Small fragments of the meteor are found around the entire area of the impact, and they may be detected with something as simple as a magnet. Features that indicate a volcanic event, like volcanic cinders or quantities of extrusive igneous rock , would also be missing from the impact site.
How do impact craters form?
From the impact of fast moving objects with a surface. The kinetic energy of the impactor excavates a crater with an inverted, raised rim and forms an ejector plume leaving a crater and, if the impactor is sufficiently large or fast, a central mountain peak.
What is A bowl shaped hole on the surface of a planet or moon that was caused by the impact of meteorite?
This is known as an impact crater. Please see the related link.
What caused the surface of other planets and moon in your solar system to have a crater?
Craters can be the result of volcanic activity or from external impact events (bodies from space striking the planet or moon).
Why does mercury's surface have so many crater impact scars?
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What is a hole in the surface of a moon or planet formed by the impact of a space object is called?
A crater
What is lunar craters?
It's a crater on the surface of the Moon, probably the result of an asteroid impact.
How does the height of the object or distance from the surface affect the impact crater?
Due to height and pressure
Why is the earth's surface not covered with crater?
Weathering and erosion tend to level out crater features, whether impact or volcanic, over time. The atmosphere also protects the surface from many meteor impact events, by burning them up before they strike.
How does crater density relate to the moons geologic history?
The greater the crater density, the older the surface must be old.
What effect did an impact have on Uranus' moon Miranda?
The impact created a large crater on its surface and threw its orbit off balance.
Where would you find a lunar crater?
YES!!! The adjective 'Lunar' from Latin, means of the Moon.
Is the Copernicus Crater a Volcanic crater?
No. Copernicus crater is an impact crater.
What Craters on the surface of the moon are caused by the impact of .?
When an asteroid, comet, or meteorite collides with the Moon a crater is formed.
