[FPSPACE] Lunar Uranium found by Kaguya GRS

[LARRY KLAES]

First Conclusive Signature For Lunar Uranium
 
In addition to uranium, the Kaguya GRS data also is showing clear signatures for thorium, potassium, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, calcium, titanium and iron. Reedy and his colleagues are using measurements from the Kaguya lunar orbiter's GRS to construct high-quality maps of as many chemical elements as possible. Kaguya was launched in September 2007 and crashed into the Moon at the end of its mission on June 10 of this year. 
 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 30, 2009
 
Robert C. Reedy, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is mapping the Moon's surface elements using data gathered by an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) that rode aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft.
 
The data promise to show chemical elements on the Moon that have never been identified before, and Reedy and the Kaguya GRS team already have found uranium signatures in the data, an element not seen in previous Moon-mapping efforts.
 
The uranium results were recently announced in papers presented at the 40th Lunar and Planetary Conference and at the Proceedings of the International Workshop Advances in Cosmic Ray Science. The lead authors on those papers are Prof. Naoyuki Yamashita and Prof. Nobuyuki Hasebe respectively. Both are from Japan's Waseda University.
 
Full article here:
 
http://www.moondaily.com/reports/First_Conclusive_Signature_For_Lunar_Uranium_999.html
 
 
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