An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Wieczorek, Mark A., Weiss, Benjamin P., Stewart, Sarah T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012
• Subjects: Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214773; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1214773

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...