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Monday 12 March 2012

An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies

An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies

Ancient impact may explain moon’s magnetic mystery
(Anomalies near crater suggest scattering of iron-rich
debris) by Nadia Drake, Science News, March 9th, 2012
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/339067/title/Ancient_impact_may_explain_moon’s_magnetic_mystery

Huge Asteroid Impact Linked to Moon's Magnetic
Hotspots by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com< march 8, 2012
http://www.space.com/14836-asteroid-collision-moon-magnetism.html

The paper is:

Wieczorek, M. A., B. P. Weiss, and S. T. Stewart, 2012,
An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies.
Science. vol. 335, no. 6073, pp. 1212-1215
DOI: 10.1126/science.1214773
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6073/1212.abstract

PDF file of this paper is downloadable from:
http://scripts.mit.edu/~paleomag/articles/Wieczorek_2012_Science.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

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