Encyclopedia of Lunar Science

1. Cryptomare and Its Mineralogy

   • Indhu Varatharajan

2. Crystallization of the Lunar Magma Ocean

   • Edward Baker

3. Detection of Water

   • Hongwei Yang, Wenjin Zhao

4. Differentiation of the Lunar Interior

   • Rajneesh Bhutani

5. Early Bombardment

   • Caitlin Ahrens

6. Early Geologic History of the Moon

   • Min Ding, Nan Zhang

7. Early Lunar Structures, Engineering

   • Leonhard E. Bernold, Haym Benaroya

8. Early Thermal Evolution of the Lunar Interiors

   • Vishal Goyal, Sandeep Sahijpal

9. Eclipse, Lunar

   • Brian Cudnik

10. Eclipse, Solar

    • Brian Cudnik

11. Electromagnetic Radiation

    • Haley Wahl

12. Ellipsoid

    • Vivek Thaker

13. Emissivity

    • K. N. Kusuma

14. Estimate of Lunar TiO2 and FeO with M3 Data

    • Weijia Zhang

15. Evolution, Lunar: From Magma Ocean to Crust Formation

    • Juliane Gross, Katherine H. Joy

16. GRAIL Mission

    • Alexander J. Evans

17. Gravitational Field Measurements to Deduce the Lunar Interior Structure

    • Sami W. Asmar

18. History of Lunar Science I

    • Gordon L. Houston

19. History of Lunar Science II

    • Gordon L. Houston

20. Hiten Mission

    • Caitlin Ahrens

The Encyclopedia of Lunar Science includes the latest topical data, definitions, and explanations of the many and varied facets of lunar science. This is a very useful reference work for a broad audience, not limited to the professional lunar scientist: general astronomers, researchers, theoreticians, practitioners, graduate students, undergraduate students, and astrophysicists as well as geologists and engineers. The title includes all current areas of lunar science, with the topical entries being established tertiary literature. The work is technically suitable to most advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The articles include topics of varying technical levels so that the top scientists of the field find this work a benefit as well as the graduate students and the budding lunar scientists. A fewexamples of topical areas are as follows: Basaltic Volcanism, Lunar Chemistry, Time and Motion Coordinates, Cosmic Weathering through Meteoritic Impact, Environment, Geology, Geologic History, Impacts and Impact Processes, Lunar Surface Processes, Origin and Evolution Theories, Regolith, Stratigraphy, Tectonic Activity, Topography, Weathering through ionizing radiation from the solar wind, solar flares, and cosmic rays.

• Prairie View A&M University, Houston, USA

  Brian Cudnik

Professor Brian Cudnik serves as Laboratory Specialist for the Physics Program at Prairie View A&M University (a part of the Texas A&M University system) in Texas. He has been at this position for almost 21 years and has been at Prairie View A&M for a total of 23 years. His prior position was that of Research Assistant at the Solar Observatory. He has served as coordinator of the Lunar Meteoritic Impact Search section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) since January 2000, two months after making the first confirmed visual observation of a meteoroid impact on the Moon during the Leonid storm of November 1999.

He has published papers and posters on various astronomical subjects including peer-reviewed papers, posters at professional conferences and amateur astronomy publications. He has served as Board Member of the Houston Astronomical Society, is presently an Associate member of the American Astronomical Society, and a regular contributor ofobservations to the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He taught astronomy at the University of St. Thomas every semester or summer session (one summer session per summer) from 2005 to 2015.

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