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The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Charles Byrne

    1. Middletown, USA

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  • Reviews the author's original research and pulls it together in one place
  • Answers many of the questions about lunar history through the discovery of the Near Side Megabasin
  • Elucidates the profound effects the Near Side Megabasin had on the subsequent development of the Moon
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Astronomy (BRIEFSASTRON)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Dichotic Shape of the Moon: Differences Between the Lunar Near Side and the Far Side

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 1-5

  3. Hypervelocity Impact Features from Craters to Ringed Basins to Megabasins

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 7-14

  4. Radial Elevation Profiles of Large Craters and Basins Establish Self-Similarity

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 15-21

  5. A Model of Large Impact Craters and Basins: Their Cavities, Rims, and Ejecta Deposits

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 23-38

  6. The Search for Megabasins to Model the Moon’s Large-Scale Topography

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 39-47

  7. The Near Side Megabasin

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 49-74

  8. The South Pole-Aitken Basin

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 75-87

  9. The Chaplygin-Mandel’shtam Basin

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 89-96

  10. History of the Crust of the Moon

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 97-110

  11. Methods, Results, and Future Directions

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages 111-116

  12. Errata to: The Moon’s Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

    • Charles J. Byrne
    Pages E1-E6

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 117-125
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About this book

Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the core of the Moon. This book summarizes the author’s successful search for an ancient impact feature, the Near Side Megabasin of the Moon and the extensions to impact theory needed to find it. The implications of this ancient event are developed to answer many of the questions about the history of the Moon.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Middletown, USA

    Charles Byrne

About the author

Charles J. Byrne’s interest in the Moon began when he was recruited from Bell Telephone Laboratories to work for the Apollo Project as a member of Bellcomm, the system engineering contractor to NASA headquarters (1962 – 1967). His responsibility was finding potential landing sites on the Moon that were both safe and scientifically interesting. A special responsibility was establishing requirements for the Lunar Orbiter and guiding its missions to support Apollo.

As an interest in the Moon arose in recent years, Byrne combined his experience with Lunar Orbiter with his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in information theory and programming to enhance the archival photographs. This led to the publication of two books of lunar photographs, one on the near side of the Moon and one on the far side of the Moon. As that work matured, he became interested in the remarkable differences between these two aspects and commenced research activity to find the cause of the difference. The answer is the Near Side Megabasin, the subject of this book.

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