15 September 2009

Japan Meteor/Meteorite News- Selene Moon Impact Data 15SEP09

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides Data About Moon's Origin

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the
Moon Took Shape
by Naiomi Solomom, September 11, 2009
Ethiopian Review

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/


Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the
Moon Took Shape. Data from the recently retired Kaguya
spacecraft support the notion that the moon's crust
congealed from an ocean of magma by John Matson,
Scientific American,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=moon-magma-ocean


The paper is:

Ohtake, M. T. Matsunaga, J. Haruyama, Y. Yokota, T.
Morota, C. Honda, Y. Ogawa, M. Torii, H. Miyamoto, T.
Arai, N. Hirata, A. Iwasaki, R. Nakamura, T. Hiroi,
T. Sugihara, H. Takeda1, H. Otake, C. M. Pieters, K.
Saiki, K. Kitazato, M. Abe, N. Asada, H. Demura, Y.
Yamaguchi, S. Sasaki1, S. Kodama, J. Terazono, M.
Shirao, A. Yamaji, S. Minami, H. Akiyama and J.-L.
Josset, 2009, The global distribution of pure
anorthosite on the Moon. Nature. vol. 461, no. 7261,
pp. 236-240 doi:10.1038/nature08317

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/abs/nature08317.html



Source, Paul H., USA

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