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Lunar surface outgassing and alpha particle measurements

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OSTI ID:976310
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]; ;
  1. Stefanie L.
  2. William C.
  3. Kurt R.
  4. Richard C.
  5. Sylvestre
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The Lunar Prospector Alpha Particle Spectrometer (LP APS) searched for lunar surface gas release events and mapped their distribution by detecting alpha particle?; produced by the decay of gaseous radon-222 (5.5 MeV, 3.8 day half-life), solid polonium-2 18 (6.0 MeV, 3 minute half-life), and solid polonium-210 (5.3 MeV, 138 day half-life, but held up in production by the 21 year half-life of lead-210). These three nuclides are radioactive daughters from the decay of uranium-238.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE
OSTI ID:
976310
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-02-5390
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
ALPHA PARTICLES
DECAY
DEGASSING
DISTRIBUTION
EXPLORATION
HALF-LIFE
ISOTOPES
LEAD 210
MOON
POLONIUM 210
PRODUCTION
RADON 222
SPECTROMETERS
URANIUM 238