Lunar and Planetary Institute






Lunar Science and Exploration

Publications

Peer-reviewed Research Publications

To appear in the future

Extended Conference Abstracts

T. Kohout, K. O’Sullivan, A. Losiak, K.G. Thaisen, S. Weider, and D.A. Kring (2009) Scientific opportunities for human exploration in the Moon’s Schrödinger BasinLunar and Planetary Science XXXX, Abstract 1572.

A. Losiak, D.E. Wilhelms, C.J. Byrne, K. Thaisen, S.Z. Weider, T. Kohout, K.O’Sullivan, and D.A. Kring  (2009) A new lunar impact crater databaseLunar and Planetary Science XXXX, Abstract 1532.

D.A. Kring (2009) Targeting complex craters and multi-ring basins to determine the tempo of impact bombardment while simultaneously probing the lunar interior.  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Targeting Meeting, Abstract 6037. Invited.

Policy White Papers Regarding Lunar Science and Exploration

NLSI Executive Council (2009) Lunar Science: Window to the Past and Stepping Stone to the Future.

D. A. Kring (2009) Using the Moon to Explore the Entire Solar System.

 Decadal Survey White Papers

C.R. Neal et al. (2009) Why the Moon is important for Solar System Science

C.R. Neal et al. (2009) The Lunar Exploration Roadmap.  Exploring the Moon in the 21st Century:  Themes, Goals, Objectives, Investigations, and Priorities, 2009

C. R. Neal et al. (2009) The Rationale for Deployment of a Long-lived Geophysical Network on the Moon

C. R. Neal et al. (2009) Developing Sample Return Technology using the Earth’s Moon as a Testing Ground

W. F. Bottke et al. (2009) Exploring the Bombardment History of the Moon

A.H. Treiman et al. (2009) Sample Return from the Earth’s Moon

Conference Abstracts

D.A. Kring, T.D. Swindle, A. Wittmann (2009) The Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis and Implications for the Entire Solar System, Paper 135-1, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 41, no. 7, p. 363.



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