Why the old explanation can not be right
Meteorite falling on the moon, and forming a crater, should form the rays around its perimeter. But there is a crater with a very small beam system, and there are those in which it is completely absent. Oblique meteorite impact did not generate a single beam, and light will be only a trace of the flight. I drew a few examples of radiation around some craters. These systems do not only relate to, say, small or large crater. They are characteristic of craters of all sizes. Another aspect of the overlapping beams is not found in books that I read. This theory is that a system of beams overlaps another, located nearby. But this does not happen. Boc ray system are clearly visible even when the system of rays from the crater Copernicus, Kepler and Aristarchus intersect. A good set of radial-type systems can be seen (69-H-28). Two intersecting ray system, single beam with feathers ", the beam stopped at the edge of kraterchika and white rays on the bottom of the crater - all perfectly visible. One important argument is the meteorite theory is that the rays do not always come from the center of the crater, but always - from a point which is tangential to the center.
Dinsmore Alter in his book "Guide to the pictures on the Moon" (published by Crowell, 1967) writes: "There are many features in the rays of the crater Copernicus. One of them - is the fact that the direction of the majority of the rays are not radial to Copernicus, the second - that in the northern part of the crater many feathered beams, radial Copernicus. Based on these rays go to the crater. " Sometimes the basis of such an elementary beam is observed as a point, a small kraterchik, and in almost all cases, the brightest point - mainly the beam. Can be highly likely to assume that there is and kraterchik. The study of the two main rays emanating in a northerly direction, despite the nahlestyvanie shows that there are places where this structure looks as consisting of elementary "cirrus" rays, which, in contrast to complex rays are radial. Let's make a pause to think about it. Does not the above explanation of a clue? Look at the basic properties of light at what they can not be. Can you guess what could be the starting theory of crater rays?