Japanese Lunar Mission Provides Data About Moon's Origin
Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How theMoon 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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