Lunar impact: how the Moon’s Mare Orientale was formed

Lunar impact: how the Moon’s Mare Orientale was formed

Subsurface map of moon reveals origin of mysterious impact
crater rings by Paul Voosen, Science News, Oct. 27, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/subsurface-map-moon-reveals-origin-mysterious-impact-crater-rings

Lunar impact: how the Moon’s Mare Orientale was formed
Astronomy Now, October 29, 2016
https://astronomynow.com/2016/10/29/lunar-impact-how-the-moons-mare-orientale-was-formed/

Insights into giant impacts on moon, Earth and Mars NASA/Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Brown university, October 27, 2016
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-moon-mission-shares-insights-into-giant-impacts/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2016/10/27/nasa-moon-mission-shares-insights-into-giant-impacts
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161027141000.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161027142654.htm

The paper is:

Zuber, M. T., D. E. Smith, and many others, 2016, Gravity field
of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior
Laboratory Mission. Science. vol. 354, no. 6311, pp. 438-441
DOI: 10.1126/science.aag0519
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6311/438

Yours,

Paul H.