Giordano Bruno, Philosopher/Heretic

Giordano Bruno: the Young and the Restless

Introduction: Giordano Bruno (GB) crater is among the youngest large lunar impact craters (22 km diameter at 36°N, 103°E (Fig. 1)). Its crisp morphology, extensive ray system, and spectral properties imply a young age (<<1 by). Spectral data [1, 2] indicate the ray material is immature having an optical maturity index, calculated from the Clementine 950/750 nm ratio [2, 3] of ~0.27. It was sugg...

Meteor storm evidence against the recent formation of lunar crater Giordano Bruno

525 © Meteoritical Society, 2001. Printed in USA. Abstract–It has been suggested that the formation of the 22 km diameter lunar crater Giordano Bruno was witnessed in June 1178 A.D. To date, this hypothesis has not been well tested. Such an impact on the Earth would be "civilization threatening". Previous studies have shown that the formation of Giordano Bruno would lead to the arrival of 10 mi...

Age of Giordano Bruno crater as deduced from the morphology of its secondaries at the Luna 24 landing site

We undertook a photogeologic study of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images of the ejecta of the very young 22-km diameter crater Giordano Bruno (GB) and for the Luna 24 landing site region, where secondary craters from Giordano Bruno are observed. Using the technique of Basilevsky (1976) for estimating the absolute ages of small lunar craters based on thei...

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