Magnetism of the Moon

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Mar 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....7..127s&link_type=abstract

The Moon, Volume 7, Issue 1-2, pp. 127-131

Physics

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The Malkus theory of a precessionally driven magnetoturbulence in a liquid core is applied to the Moon. It is shown that a lunar magnetic field requires the presence of a non-metallic core at at least 2500K or of an iron core at at least 2000K. Within the limits of our present knowledge these requirements may have been satisfied in the past. A new mechanism is proposed which is based on tidal effects in the outer solid and liquid shells whose existence is suggested by measurements of lunar radioactivity. This mechanism could account for the generation of local rather than poloidal fields at low latitudes in agreement with observation.

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