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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Surveyor observations of lunar horizon-glow	The Moon	1974	249
2	Effects of vapor-phase deposition processes on the optical, chemical, and magnetic properties OE the lunar regolith	The Moon	1975	211
3	Moon: Origin and evolution of multi-ring basins	The Moon	1971	205
4	Floor-fractured lunar craters	The Moon	1976	188
5	Seismic effects from major basin formations on the moon and mercury	The Moon	1975	170
6	Shock melting and vaporization of lunar rocks and minerals	The Moon	1972	168
7	A study of lunar impact crater size-distributions	The Moon	1975	162
8	Displaced mass, depth, diameter, and effects of oblique trajectories for impact craters formed in dense crystalline rocks	The Moon	1973	159
9	Orientale multi-ringed basin interior and implications for the petrogenesis of lunar highland samples	The Moon	1974	148
10	Debye-scherrer investigations of experimentally shocked silicates	The Moon	1973	108
11	Seismic scattering and shallow structure of the moon in oceanus procellarum	The Moon	1974	103
12	Lunar color boundaries and their relationship to topographic features: A preliminary survey	The Moon	1972	101
13	Lava tubes and channels in the lunar Marius Hills	The Moon	1971	99
14	Compositional evidence regarding the influx of interplanetary materials onto the lunar surface	The Moon	1975	93
15	Lunar electric fields, surface Potential and Associated Plasma Sheaths	The Moon	1975	92
16	Basaltic magmatism and the bulk composition of the moon	The Moon	1977	92
17	The Apollo 15 lunar heat-flow measurement	The Moon	1972	91
18	From regolith to rock by shock	The Moon	1975	86
19	Meteoritic material on the moon	The Moon	1973	85
20	High-resolution radar maps of the lunar surface at 3.8-cm wavelength	The Moon	1974	84
21	On the origin of the lunar smooth-plains	The Moon	1975	84
22	Lunar soil grain size distribution	The Moon	1973	83
23	Progress in remote optical analysis of lunar surface composition	The Moon	1973	83
24	Processes of lunar crater degradation: Changes in style with geologic time	The Moon	1975	82
25	Shallow lunar structure determined from the passive seismic experiment	The Moon	1975	82
26	Formation of the lunar atmosphere	The Moon	1975	81
27	Darkening of silicate rock powders by solar wind sputtering	The Moon	1973	79
28	Cosmic ray exposure ages of features and events at the apollo landing sites	The Moon	1975	78
29	The chemical composition and structure of the moon	The Moon	1972	74
30	The Aristarchus-Harbinger region of the moon: Surface geology and history from recent remote-sensing observations	The Moon	1977	74
31	Laboratory simulation of the herringbone pattern associated with lunar secondary crater chains	The Moon	1974	68
32	A theory for the interpretation of lunar surface magnetometer data	The Moon	1969	67
33	Horizontal transport of the regolith, modification of features, and erosion rates on the lunar surface	The Moon	1975	67
34	Catastrophic rupture of lunar rocks: A Monte Carlo simulation	The Moon	1975	64
35	Monochromatic brightness variations of comets	The Moon	1977	64
36	Recent results on the mass, gravitational field and moments of inertia of the moon	The Moon	1972	63
37	Effects of lava flows on lunar crater populations	The Moon	1976	59
38	Lunar rilles and Hawaiian volcanic features: Possible analogues	The Moon	1972	57
39	Crater dimensions from apollo data and supplemental sources	The Moon	1976	57
40	Thermal evolution of the moon	The Moon	1972	56
41	On the origin of the moon by rotational fission	The Moon	1974	56
42	Development of the mare regolith: Some model considerations	The Moon	1975	56
43	Stratigraphy of the descartes region (Apollo 16): implications for the origin of samples	The Moon	1974	54
44	How old is the crater copernicus?	The Moon	1973	53
45	A comparison of infrared, radar, and geologic mapping of lunar craters	The Moon	1974	52
46	Comments on the moon's magnetism	The Moon	1972	51
47	Lunar gravity via the Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellites	The Moon	1974	51
48	Polarized absorption spectra of single crystals of lunar pyroxenes and olivines	The Moon	1972	50
49	Thermal history and evolution of the moon	The Moon	1973	50
50	The measurements of sky brightness on lunokhod-2	The Moon	1975	50

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