[meteorite-list] Japanese Lunar Mission Provides Data About Moon's Origin

[Paul]

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the 
Moon Took Shape by Naiomi Solomom, September 11, 2009 
Ethiopian Review. 

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/

Japanese Lunar Mission Provides a Glimpse at How the 
Moon Took Shape. Data from the recently retired Kaguya 
spacecraft support the notion that the moon's crust 
congealed from an ocean of magma by John Matson,
Scientific American, 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=moon-magma-ocean

The paper is:

Ohtake, M. T. Matsunaga, J. Haruyama, Y. Yokota, T. 
Morota, C. Honda, Y. Ogawa, M. Torii, H. Miyamoto, T. 
Arai, N. Hirata, A. Iwasaki, R. Nakamura, T. Hiroi, 
T. Sugihara, H. Takeda1, H. Otake, C. M. Pieters, K. 
Saiki, K. Kitazato, M. Abe, N. Asada, H. Demura, Y. 
Yamaguchi, S. Sasaki1, S. Kodama, J. Terazono, M. 
Shirao, A. Yamaji, S. Minami, H. Akiyama and J.-L. 
Josset, 2009, The global distribution of pure 
anorthosite on the Moon. Nature. vol. 461, no. 7261,
pp. 236-240 doi:10.1038/nature08317 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/abs/nature08317.html

Yours,

Paul H.