The density and porosity of lunar rocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kiefer, Walter S ^a   MacKe, Robert J ^b,c   Britt, Daniel T ^b   Irving, Anthony J ^d   Consolmagno, Guy J ^e  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; HELIUM; MOON; TITANIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BULK DENSITY; GRAIN DENSITY; GRAVITY MODEL; HELIUM PYCNOMETRY; IMPACT BASINS; LUNAR METEORITE; MINERAL DENSITY; PORE SPACE; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; POROSITY UNCERTAINTY; ROCK DENSITY;

POROSITY;

BASALT; DENSITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVITY FIELD; HELIUM; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR METEORITE; POROSITY; ROCK PROPERTY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION;

EID: 84859834963     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051319     Document Type: Article

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