A stochastic model of the formation and survival of lunar craters
By: A.H. Marcus.
Contributors: Rand Corporation.; United States. Air Force
Series: Memorandum -- RM-4681-[4682]-PR; Memorandum (Rand Corporation) -- RM-4680-PR - RM-4682-PR.
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Lunar craters -- Mathematical models.
Other titles: Formation and survival of lunar craters
Notes: "August 1965."

"Research is sponsored by the United States Air Force under Project RAND--contract no. AF 49(638)-700."

Based in part on the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965).

Part I, Distribution of diameter of clean craters, was published as a paper in Icarus, v. 3, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: I. Distribution of diameter of clean craters; value: II. Approximate distribution of diameter of all observable craters; value: III. Filling and disappearance of craters.