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Is the mystery of moon's lost magnetism solved?

  • 11.11.2011
  • By Clara Moskowitz - msnbc.msn.com
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Two theories get to the (liquid) core of the issue: Blame it on Earth or space collisions.
One of the abiding mysteries of our moon is why it apparently once had a magnetic field. Now two teams of scientists have offered two separate, but potentially complementary, explanations.
When Apollo astronauts brought back samples of moon rocks from their lunar landing missions in the 1960s and...

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