[meteorite-list] More on the Moon's Core

From: Whitney Riner <majesticmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:28:05 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTini0oos_NetLVeQnBU5kUvH8=gLHjKC6quKxaZm_at_mail.gmail.com>

Science Daily has an article on a recent re-analysis of data on the
Lunar interior in the journal Science:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110106144751.htm

Featuring a nice cameo appearance by a slice of NWA 5000


According to the team's findings, published Jan. 6 in the online
edition of Science, the Moon possesses an iron-rich core with a solid
inner ball nearly 150 miles in radius, and a 55-mile thick outer fluid
shell.
"The Moon's deepest interior, especially whether or not it has a core,
has been a blind spot for seismologists," says Ed Garnero, a professor
at the School of Earth and Space Exploration in ASU's College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences. "The seismic data from the old Apollo
missions were too noisy to image the Moon with any confidence. Other
types of information have inferred the presence of a lunar core, but
the details on its size and composition were not well constrained."

Abstract Here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6015/309.abstract?sid=be6f3534-235f-4bc2-b1bc-7269845cdab0
Received on Sun 13 Feb 2011 08:28:05 PM PST