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Old November 10th 11, 12:36 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur,sci.physics
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How the moon got its magnetism

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene..._its_magnetism

Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field


External forces beating up the ancient moon may explain how it once maintained a magnetic field for more than 400 million years — longer than scientists had thought such a small object could be magnetized.


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