P21B:
New Perspectives on Dynamic Lunar Processes I


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Session ID#: 60179

Session Description:
A new ability to study dynamical lunar processes has emerged from data returned by lunar missions, accompanying model analyses, laboratory studies, and analog research.  These data provide insight into the fundamental geologic processes that have shaped the Moon and demonstrate that the lunar environment was and remains dynamic. New paradigms are emerging in the areas of ongoing bombardment, regolith processes, volatile transport, volcanism, tectonism, and basin formation. This session will highlight new studies of contemporary and fundamental processes and their roles in the geologic history of our nearest planetary neighbor.
Primary Convener:  Heather M Meyer, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Dana Hurley, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, Rachel L Klima, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States and Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heather M Meyer, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Heather M Meyer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Rachel L Klima, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dana Hurley, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5455 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5499 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6250 Moon [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Constrain the Impact of Debris on the Infant Moon (411914)
Viranga Perera, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Alan P. Jackson, University of Toronto, Centre for Planetary Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Secondary Atmosphere of the Moon and its Effect on Moon's Geological History. (426831)
Igor D Aleinov1, Michael Way2, Chester E Harman Jr3, Kostas Tsigaridis3 and Eric T Wolf4, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (3)Columbia University, New York, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
Impact Ejecta and Gardening in the Lunar Polar Regions (437106)
Jamey R Szalay, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Petr Pokorny, Catholic University of America, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington, DC, United States, Zoltan Sternovsky, University of Colorado, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States, Zoltan Kupihar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Andrew R Poppe, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Mihaly Horanyi, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Plasma Interaction with Lunar Crustal Magnetization: Implications for Space Weathering (Invited) (390326)
Shahab Fatemi, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden and Andrew R Poppe, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Local time dependence of sodium in the lunar exosphere from LADEE data. (417881)
Erin C M Dawkins, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Menelaos Sarantos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Anthony Colaprete, NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Diane H Wooden, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Unfinished Business: Constraints on Evolution of the Lunar Crust (Invited) (438469)
Carle M Pieters, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Stephen M Elardo, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
Moon Mineralogy Mapper Data Suggest an Intrusive Magmatic Origin for the Thorium Hotspots within the South Pole – Aitken Basin (415069)
Daniel Moriarty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ryan N Watkins, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Investigating the Diversity of Lunar Pyroclastic Constructs Using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (418668)
Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, Lisa R Gaddis, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Mark Southwick Robinson, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Briony H N Horgan, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Samuel Lawrence, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, United States, J. Olaf Gustafson, Cornell University, Facilities Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States and Thomas Giguere, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada

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