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Science 18 March 1966:
Vol. 151. no. 3716, pp. 1380 - 1381
DOI: 10.1126/science.151.3716.1380
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Mechanism of Lunar Polarization

J. J. Hopfield 1

1 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

A theoretical model to explain the negative polarization of moonlight at small lunar phase angles is developed. The model is based on the polarization of light in the diffraction region bordering the geometric shadow of an opaque dielectric obstacle.

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