Pinpointing the source of a lunar meteorite: Implications for the evolution of the moon

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5684, 2004, Pages 657-659

  Gnos, Edwin ^a   Hofmann, Beda A ^b   Al Kathiri, Ali ^a   Lorenzetti, Silvio ^a   Eugster, Otto ^a   Whitehouse, Martin J ^c   Villa, Igor M ^a   Jull, A J Timothy ^d   Eikenberg, Jost ^e   Spettel, Bernhard ^f   Krähenbühl, Urs ^a   Franchi, Ian A ^g   Greenwood, Richard C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; MOON BASES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

BRECCIA; LUNAR METEORITE; REGOLITH;

METEORITES;

ELEMENT; OXIDE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM; ISOTOPE; LANTHANIDE; LEAD;

BRECCIA; IMPACT; LUNAR METEORITE; MOON; PROVENANCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMIC RADIATION; EVOLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; STRATIGRAPHY; CRYSTALLIZATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METALS, RARE EARTH; METEOROIDS; MOON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 3442899041     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099397     Document Type: Article

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