Below is the link for the Craters in the Solar System Lab, please download it, fill it out, then write a lab report as normal. To help facilitate the lab report, I have written a summary of how to write the lab report, specific to this THIS lab.

You will need a ruler to complete this lab

I. Abstract: what you did, why you did it, what you found out. Have a brief summary of the whole exercise, briefly cover the main concepts of the lab, and then state the most important numerical results. There will be many numerical results, so be selective of what goes here.

II. Procedure: a complete narrative of the "events" of the lab, think of this as a travelogue of the exercise, complete with the necessary theory along the way to give the material its proper context, this includes the equations used, although you will not be including any data in this section.

III. Data and Anaylsis: this will be a complete reproduction of ALL of the data, and there will be a lot of it. Please organize it well, and make it neat and easy to read. Also include sample calculations and the algebra from part V.g. (more on this later).

IV. Discussion: Since the data speak for themselves in this lab, you are not required to write any further discussion of your calculations. Instead, I would like you to select one topic from the list of six topics on the last two pages of the hand-out. Select a topic and write about 2 paragraphs in the discussion section telling your reader about the topic, and also relating it to the overall lab. Other topics (e.g., how the moon was formed, or other impact craters on the earth) will be accepted, as long as they pertain to craters and impacts and are pre-approved by me.

V. Data Pages: this is just the completed hand-out, with your notes and stuff

Finally, I would like draw your attention to a rule-of-thumb from Section V of the hand-out. It states that the relationship between the diameter of a crater (D), and the diameter of the impactor that created the crater (l) is a factor of ten, i.e. D~10xl. The reason I draw attention to this rule-of-thumb, is that in section V.g. you are asked to find the diameter of a impactor, and you could easily find this USING the rule-of-thumb, but I would like you to use the equations from this section to DEMONSTRATE that the rule-of-thumb is correct.

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