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Science 13 June 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3885, pp. 1273 - 1275
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3885.1273
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Moon: Two New Mascon Basins

Malcolm J. Campbell 1, Brian T. O'Leary 1, and Carl Sagan 1

1 Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850

Lunar gravity data and orbital photography indicate that there is a mascon basin approximately 1000 kilometers in diameter on the farside of the moon and that Mare Marginis is the flooded fraction of a mascon basin approximately 900 kilometers in diameter.


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Lunar Gravity Analysis from Long-Term Effects.
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Nonexistence of Large Mascons at Mare Marginis and Mare Orientale.
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