Static Discharges to a Dust Covered CRT Provides a Clue to Crater Formation on Planetary Bodies

Abstract

Static discharge patterns, seen in a thin layer of dust on a CRT, have a striking resemblance to many features seen on moons and asteroids. What might this low tech experiment reveal about how some planetary surface features are formed'.' Many features on moons and asteroids are hard to explain through the mechanism of an impact. The anomalies are numerous but the most obvious challenge comes from chained craters which appear to overlap each other or lay in very close linear proximity.