Encyclopedia of Lunar Science von Brian Cudnik

InhaltsangabeAlbedo/photometric mapping.- Ancient Lunar Dynamo / magnetic field.- Atmosphere, evolution of.- Atmosphere, present (including sodium enhancements).- Basaltic volcanism.- Breccias.- Chemistry of lunar surface.- Core properties.- Craters-ages and evolution.- Craters-concentric.- Crater counting / densities.- Craters-secondaries.- Craters-sizes and morphologies.- Dark Halo Lunar Craters.- Differentiation and Internal Structure.- Digital Elevation Models.- Domes, volcanic domes, dome fields.- Eclipses, Lunar (and thermal effects on the lunar surface).- Electrical and electromagnetic properties of lunar surface.- Electrostatic Dust Transport.- Ejecta ridges, physical properties.- Geology.- Geology (Apollo and Luna landing sites).- Giant Impact Hypothesis (Lunar Origin).- Gravity mapping.- Highlands, farside.- Highlands-Mare Boundaries.- Highlands, nearside.- Hypervelocity impact phenomena, natural and laboratory.- Impact Ejecta.- Impacts, past.- Impacts, present.- Interaction with solar wind and cosmic rays.- Interior.- Isotopic History and Properties.- KREEP (potassium, K; Rare Earth Elements; Potassium).- Lava tubes, volcanic features.- Lunar Chronology.- Lunar environment.- Lunar Geochemistry.- Lunar magnetism.- Lunar Melts.- Lunar Meteorites.- Lunar Petrology.- Lunar Remote Sensing.- Lunar Samples.- Lunar Swirls.- Lunar Volatiles.- Magma Ocean.- Manned spaceflight to the Moon, past and future.- Mapping.- Mare basaltic lavas.- MASCON and gravitational profile.- Mineralogy of lunar crater central peaks.- Minerals, oxides (ilmenite, spinels, armalcolite).- Minerals, phosphates.- Minerals, silicates (pyroxene, plagioclase feldspar, olivine, silica minerals).- Minerals, sulfides (troilite and others).- Moment of Inertia.- Moonquakes.- Natural resources.- Optical Maturity (OMAT).- Orbital dynamics.- Origin and evolution, surface / crust.- Origin and evolution, interior.- Paleomagnetism.- People (scientists, astronauts).- Physical Libration.- Plasma Environment.- Polar environment.- Radiation from moon, reflection and emission.- Radiation, ionizing.- Radiometry.- Rays, ejecta patterns.- Regional distribution of lunar rock types.- Regolith, depth / vertical structure.- Regolith (dust properties including grain size and distribution).- Regolith, spectral properties, evolution and maturity.- Rocks, highland pristine (Igneous and monomict breccias).-Rocks, spectral properties of highland rocks.- Soil variations with depth.- Soil Simulants.- Spectral analysis of lunar samples.- Stratigraphy and relative ages of lunar surface units.- Thermal properties, bulk.- Thermal properties, surface.- Titanium abundances / distribution.- Topography mapping.- Transient Phenomena-Plausible.- Transient Phenomena-Doubtful.- Unmanned missions.- Vapor Mobilized Elements (including vapor transport).- Volcanic glasses.- Water ice deposits.- Weathering agents and processes.

Editor-in-Chief:Brian Cudnik, Prairie View A&M University, Houston, TX, USA Section Editors: Shengbo Chen, College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jinlin University, Changchun, PR ChinaJesse Davenport, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CNRS-CRPG), Vandoeuvre-Lés-Nancy, FranceCesare Grava, Southwest Research Institute, San ANtonio, TX, UsaAmanda Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USAIssaku Kohl, University of California, Young Stable Isotope Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, USAJosé M. Madiedo, Facultad de Sciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, SpainAmit B. Sarbadhikari, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, IndiaEdgar S. Steenstra, Faculteit Aard- en Levenwetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsNicolle E. B. Zellner, Department of Physics, Albion College, MI, USAYuanzhi Zhang, Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep-Space Exploration, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, PR China----------------Professor Brian Cudnik serves as Laboratory Specialist for the Physics Program at Prairie View A&M University (a part of the Texas A&M University system) in Texas. He has been at this position for almost 11 years and has been at Prairie View A&M for a total of 13 years. His prior position was that of Research Assistant at the Solar Observatory. He has served as coordinator of the Lunar Meteoritic Impact Search section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) since January 2000, two months after making the first confirmed visual observation of a meteoroid impact on the Moon during the Leonid storm of November 1999.He has published papers and posters on various astronomical subjects including peer-reviewed papers, posters at professional conferences and amateur astronomy publications. He has served as Board Member of the Houston Astronomical Society, is presently an Associate member of the American Astronomical Society, a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers and a regular contributor of observations at the International Occultation Timing Association. He taught astronomy at the University of St. Thomas every semester or summer session (one summer session per summer) since 2005.