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Scientific paper
Apr 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978georl...5..305h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 5, Apr. 1978, p. 305-308.
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Lunar Crust, Lunar Magnetic Fields, Magnetization, Random Processes, Astronomical Models, Data Acquisition, Lunar Far Side, Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetic Measurement, Moon, Magnetic Properties, Magnetic Fields, Magnetometer-Subsatellite, Van De Graaff, Models
Scientific paper
An approximate inversion, using a specific model, of Apollo subsatellite vector magnetometer data has provided estimates for the locations, scale sizes, and magnetization characteristics of strongly magnetized lunar crustal materials across a portion of the lunar far side. The nearly model-independent local bulk directions of magnetization, while otherwise random, exhibit a tendency to lie in or near planes perpendicular to the present lunar spin axis. The apparent existence of such a preferred plane of magnetization must be regarded as unfavorable for proposed local, presumably random sources of large-scale, coherent magnetization and implies that any assumed internal magnetizing dipole or external linear magnetizing field must also have been oriented mainly perpendicular to the present spin axis. The otherwise random orientations of these vectors when projected onto the equatorial plane suggests a simple explanation for the negligible lunar global dipole moment.
Coleman Patrick J.
Hood Lon L.
Russell Christopher T.
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