Reconstruction of the lunar crater production function and re-evaluation of its calibration to time (A02)

• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 263649064

Understanding impact processes is crucially important for investigating the geologic evolution of the Moon. Thus, this project aims to accomplish three major scientific goals that include: (1) The derivation of new lunar production/chronology functions, which are necessary to date planetary surfaces on the basis of re-mote sensing data, (2) the systematic investigation of parameters that affect crater size-frequency distributions and the derived model ages, and (3) the production of self-consistent model ages for a large number of geologic units by refitting published crater size-frequencies with the newly derived production and chro-nology functions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 170: Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Harald Hiesinger