An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon
An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon
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2016-05-31
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Barnes, Jessica J.
Kring, David A. (David Allen)
Tartèse, Romain
Franchi, Ian A.
Anand, Mahesh (Professor)
Russell, Sara S. (Sara Samantha), 1966-
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-6282
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Nature
Abstract
Here we address those fundamental issues by constraining the mass of water accreted to the Moon and modelling the relative proportions of asteroidal and cometary sources for water that are consistent with measured isotopic compositions of lunar samples. We determine that a combination of carbonaceous chondrite-type materials were responsible for the majority of water (and nitrogen) delivered to the Earth–Moon system.
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Asteroids,
Moon,
Water
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Barnes, J., Kring, D., Tartèse, R. et al. An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon. Nat Commun 7, 11684 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11684