First Conclusive Signature For Lunar Uranium

Larry Klaes passed to fpspace and I, this information and link.

http://www.moondaily.com/reports/First_Conclusive_Signature_For_Lunar_Uranium_999.html
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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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As did SpaceWarper this link.

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Uranium on Luna:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28605
First Conclusive Signature for Lunar Uranium

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, June 29, 2009
Source: Planetary Science Institute

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
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The KAGUYA Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS), which employs a high-purity Ge semiconductor detector, is observing the distribution of element concentrations (K, Th, U, O, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, and Fe) in the lunar subsurface with its spatial resolution of approximately 135 km.
In the left figure, an energy spectrum of gamma rays observed by the KAGUYA GRS (red line) is shown with one observed by the GRS of Lunar Prospector (blue line), which is a past American lunar mission. The figure is plotted with counting rates of gamma rays as a vertical axis and energies of gamma rays as a horizontal axis, and the individual peaks indicate the existence of elements. As seen from the comparison of these two energy spectra, the energy spectrum measured by the KAGUYA GRS shows much sharper peaks, because of its excellent energy resolution of the KAGUYA GRS. It is clear that the KAGUYA GRS provides more detail information on elements than the Lunar Prospector GRS. The data of the KAGUYA GRS used in the figure were obtained from December 2007 (when its regular observation began) through February 2008, and the data of the Lunar Prospector GRS were from December 1998 through July 1999.
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