Making an international impact: a joint international astronomy project
Issue 346 | Page 67 | Published Sep 2012
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Using data extracted from the scientific literature, students were tasked with deriving a theoretical mathematical model that could be used to predict the depth of simple lunar primary and secondary impact craters.
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