Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — In the Moon. [ARTICLE]

In the Moon.

In tlie opinion of Proiesnr Asaph Hail, as recently expressed, the problem of the physical constitution of the moon is one that yet remains to lie solved, of the “craters," scattered nil over her surface, the volcanic theory of formation fails, lie thinks, to be satisfactory. Another notion to which lie refers is that, ages ago, tlie moon was surrounded by swarms of “moonlets," which erentually were precipitated upon the moon’s surface, forming the craters now seen. Tims, t-lie Mure Imbriuru was created by the impact of » huge nioonlet, ninety miles in diameter, which, in striking, was raised to such a high temperature as to melt its substance. An immense hole or “crater" tael tig formed where It struck, the molten material of the nioonlet spread in every direction for a vast distance, partly filling up other erators; fragments flew to distances . f a thousand miles, scoring out deep furrows, one of tlie latter, as now seen, being 187 miles long, ten to twenty-five miles broad, and with it depth of 11.00(1 feet.