Was the moon magnetized by impact plasmas?
The crusts of the Moon, Mercury, and many meteorite parent bodies are magnetized. Although the magnetizing field is commonly attributed to that of an ancient core dynamo, a longstanding hypothesized alternative is amplification of the interplanetary magnetic field and induced crustal field by plasma...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81358 |