The end of the lunar dynamo

Saied Mighani; Huapei Wang; David L. Shuster; Cauȇ S. Borlina; Claire I. O. Nichols; Benjamin P. Weiss

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax0883

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The end of the lunar dynamo

View ORCID ProfileSaied Mighani¹,*,†,
View ORCID ProfileHuapei Wang¹,²,*,†,
View ORCID ProfileDavid L. Shuster³,⁴,
View ORCID ProfileCauȇ S. Borlina¹,
View ORCID ProfileClaire I. O. Nichols¹ and
View ORCID ProfileBenjamin P. Weiss ¹,†

¹Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
²School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P. R. China.
³Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁴Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.

↵†Corresponding author. Email: bpweiss{at}mit.edu (B.P.W.); huapei{at}mit.edu (H.W.); smighani{at}mit.edu (S.M.)

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Advances 01 Jan 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 1, eaax0883
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0883

Saied Mighani

1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Huapei Wang

1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P. R. China.

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David L. Shuster

3Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

4Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.

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Cauȇ S. Borlina

1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Claire I. O. Nichols

1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Benjamin P. Weiss

1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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