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Science 1 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3931, pp. 575 - 576
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3931.575
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Radioactivity Induced in Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Material by Solar Flare Protons

H. R. Heydegger 1 and Anthony Turkevich 2

1 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
2 Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

Comparison of values of the specific radioactivities reported for lunar surface material from the Apollo 11 mission with analogous data for stone meteorites suggests that energetic particles from the solar flare of 12 April 1969 may have produced most of the cobalt-56 observed.

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