Does the moon have a metallic core? Constraints from giant impact modeling and siderophile elements

Icarus

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-13

  Righter, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmochemistry; Earth; Geochemistry; Interiors; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036638987     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6859     Document Type: Article

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