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Palaeos Hadean: The Nectarian Era (219 words) |
 | The Nectarian Era is named for the Mare Nectaris ("Sea of Nectar"), an old basin on the southwest part of the lunar Nearside. |
| The current "best guess" is that these objects were derived from the breakup of the planet which produced the asteroid belt, a result of tidal stresses caused by a close approach to Jupiter. |
| The basins of Nectarian age are the oldest surviving basins on the moon. |
| Nectarian - encyclopedia article about Nectarian. (904 words) |
| Pre-Nectarian The Pre-Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4550 million years ago (the time of the initial formation of the Moon) to 3920 million years ago, when the Nectaris Basin was formed by a large impact. |
| The Lower Imbriam was preceded by the Nectarian. |
| The Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale The lunar geologic timescale divides the history of Earth's Moon into six generally recognized geologic periods: |
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