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Old 18-September-2003, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by John T
Can you really believe that the many rilles and circular craters on the moon (and other bodies, including the Earth) were actually caused by nothing other than "impacts"? ... Can you explain this "impact theme"?
Of course I can believe it. Why not? The explanation is easy. Big rock flies through space. Planet gets in way of big rock. Splat (or maybe boom). Crater. We know there are big rocks out there, we watch them flying around. That they might eventually hit something is hardly a miracle.