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Discovery of moganite in a lunar meteorite as a trace of H2O ice in the Moon’s regolith

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, May 2018
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Title
Discovery of moganite in a lunar meteorite as a trace of H2O ice in the Moon’s regolith
Published in
Science Advances, May 2018
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aar4378
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Authors

Masahiro Kayama, Naotaka Tomioka, Eiji Ohtani, Yusuke Seto, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Jens Götze, Akira Miyake, Shin Ozawa, Toshimori Sekine, Masaaki Miyahara, Kazushige Tomeoka, Megumi Matsumoto, Naoki Shoda, Naohisa Hirao, Takamichi Kobayashi

Abstract

Moganite, a monoclinic SiO2 phase, has been discovered in a lunar meteorite. Silica micrograins occur as nanocrystalline aggregates of mostly moganite and occasionally coesite and stishovite in the KREEP (high potassium, rare-earth element, and phosphorus)-like gabbroic-basaltic breccia NWA 2727, although these grains are seemingly absent in other lunar meteorites. We interpret the origin of these grains as follows: alkaline water delivery to the Moon via carbonaceous chondrite collisions, fluid capture during impact-induced brecciation, moganite precipitation from the captured H2O at pH 9.5 to 10.5 and 363 to 399 K on the sunlit surface, and meteorite launch from the Moon caused by an impact at 8 to 22 GPa and >673 K. On the subsurface, this captured H2O may still remain as ice at estimated bulk content of >0.6 weight %. This indicates the possibility of the presence of abundant available water resources underneath local sites of the host bodies within the Procellarum KREEP and South Pole Aitken terranes.

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Unknown 49 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 18%
Student > Master 8 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 16%
Other 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 8 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 55%
Chemistry 2 4%
Engineering 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 11 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 309. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 December 2019.
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#111,654
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