Magnetization in the South Pole-Aitken basin: Implications for the lunar dynamo and true polar wander

• Main Authors: Nayak,Michael, Hemingway,Doug, Garrick-Bethell,Ian
• Other Authors: AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Astronomy; Electricity and Magnetism; MAGNETIZATION; Moon; magnetic fields; magnetic materials; magnetic moments; magnetometers; planetary sciences; magnetic anomalies; angular momentum; dikes; Impact processes; spa(South Pole-Aitken); hydrogen deposits; paleopoles; sesquinary impactors; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1034491; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1034491

A number of magnetic anomalies are present along the northern edge of the lunar South Pole-Aitken(SPA) basin. A variety of hypotheses for their formation have been proposed, but an in-depth study of their properties has not been performed. Here we use two different methods to invert for their source...