Origin and Evolution if the Moon's Dynamo

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1. Introduction

• Historical perspective (Mike Fuller, Lon Hood)

2. Paleomagnetism (Sonia Tikoo, Jerome Gattacceca, Ben Weiss)

• magnetic carriers and lunar rock magnetic properties
• Acquisition of magnetization: TRM, SRM
• paleomagnetic field strength

3. Crustal Magnetism (Lon Hood, Mike Purucker, Jasper Halekas, Rona Oran, Mark Wieczorek)

• surface measurements
• magnetic field from orbital measurements (magnetometer and electron reflectometer)
• magnetic signatures of impact basins (including antipodes, SPA)
• properties of crustal magnetic anomalies (depth, size, strength, direction)
• magnetic paleopoles

4. Dynamo generation (Krista Soderlund, Francis Nimmo, Doris Breuer)

• thermal dynamos
• core crystallization
• precession
• inertial instabilities

5. Synthesis (Mark Wieczorek, Ben Weiss, Sonia Tikoo)

• discrepancy of paleofield strengths and dynamo modeling
• dynamo strength as a function of time: discrepancies between paleomag and crustal fields
• source of power for dynamo generation

6. Conclusions and future work (Ben Weiss and Mark Wieczorek)