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Based on the physical aspects of Catena Mendeleev, what is the most plausible explanation for how crater chains are formed on the Moon?

a. these craters chains are formed by a series of impacts from a passing comet or asteroid that just passed to close too the Moon and ended up colliding with the Moon

b. they are the result of surface collapse due to the prescence of an underground fault

c. they are primarily the result of secondary fragments hitting the lunar surface from an initially from an larger impact fragment that resulted in another larger, distant crater 

 

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