An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
Bringing Magnetic Materials to the Moon The Apollo missions to the Moon revealed that portions of the lunar crust are strongly magnetized. Lunar rocks are poor at recording the magnetic field, thus these magnetic anomalies have been difficult to explain. Based on numerical simulations of large-scale...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1214773 2024-06-23T07:56:49+00:00 An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies Wieczorek, Mark A. Weiss, Benjamin P. Stewart, Sarah T. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214773 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1214773 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 335, issue 6073, page 1212-1215 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2012 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1214773 2024-06-13T04:01:03Z Bringing Magnetic Materials to the Moon The Apollo missions to the Moon revealed that portions of the lunar crust are strongly magnetized. Lunar rocks are poor at recording the magnetic field, thus these magnetic anomalies have been difficult to explain. Based on numerical simulations of large-scale impacts, Wieczorek et al. (p. 1212 see the Perspective by Collins ) show that the vast majority of lunar magnetic anomalies can be explained by highly magnetic materials that originated outside the Moon and were delivered by the asteroid that hit the Moon and formed the South Pole–Aitken basin, the largest impact basin in the solar system. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Aitken ENVELOPE(-44.516,-44.516,-60.733,-60.733) South Pole Science 335 6073 1212 1215 |
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Bringing Magnetic Materials to the Moon The Apollo missions to the Moon revealed that portions of the lunar crust are strongly magnetized. Lunar rocks are poor at recording the magnetic field, thus these magnetic anomalies have been difficult to explain. Based on numerical simulations of large-scale impacts, Wieczorek et al. (p. 1212 see the Perspective by Collins ) show that the vast majority of lunar magnetic anomalies can be explained by highly magnetic materials that originated outside the Moon and were delivered by the asteroid that hit the Moon and formed the South Pole–Aitken basin, the largest impact basin in the solar system. |
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An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies |
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