Contents.History The word crater was adopted from the word for vessel - (Κρατήρ a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water). Galileo built his first telescope in late 1609, and turned it to the Moon for the first time on November 30, 1609. He discovered that, contrary to general opinion at that time, the Moon was not a perfect sphere, but had both mountains and cup-like depressions. These were named craters by (1791), extending its previous use with volcanoes.as to the origin of craters swung back and forth over the ensuing centuries.
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The competing theories were (a) volcanic eruptions blasting holes in the Moon, (b) meteoric impact, (c) a theory known as the developed in Germany between the two which suggested glacial action creating the craters.suggested in 1893 that the Moon's craters were formed by large asteroid impacts. Ralph Baldwin in 1949 wrote that the Moon's craters were mostly of impact origin. Around 1960, revived the idea. According to, Gene 'saw the craters on the Moon as logical impact sites that were formed not gradually, in, but explosively, in seconds.' Lunar craters as captured through the backyard telescope of an amateur astronomer, partially illuminated by the sun on a waning crescent moon.Evidence collected during the and from unmanned spacecraft of the same period proved conclusively that meteoric impact, or impact by for larger craters, was the origin of almost all lunar craters, and by implication, most craters on other bodies as well.The formation of new craters is studied in the lunar impact monitoring program at NASA. The biggest recorded creation was caused by an impact recorded on March 17, 2013.
Visible to the naked eye, the impact is believed to be from an approximately 40 kg meteoroid striking the surface at a speed of 90,000 km/h.In March 2018 the discovery of around 7,000 formerly unidentified lunar craters via developed at the was announced. Characteristics Because of the Moon's lack of water, and, there is little erosion, and craters are found that exceed two billion years in age.
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Volute krater Terra-cotta volute krater, c. 450 bce; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rogers Fund, 1907, 07.286.84, www.metmuseum.orgKraters are large, with a broad body and base and usually a wide mouth. They may have horizontal handles placed near the base, or vertical handles rising from the shoulder.
Among the many variations are the, confined to, shaped like an inverted bell, with loop handles and a disk foot; the, with an egg-shaped body and handles that rise from the shoulder and curl in a volute (scroll-shaped form) well above the rim; the calyx krater, the shape of which spreads out like the cup or calyx of a flower; and the column krater, with columnar handles rising from the shoulder to a flat, projecting lip rim.