Does Mercury Have Lunar-like Mascons?
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Sean C. Solomon, Frank G. Lemoine, Gregory A. Neumann, James W Head III, and Mark H. Torrence, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 690, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 (David.E.Smith@nasa. gov); ([email protected]); ([email protected]); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02129 ([email protected]); Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302 ([email protected]); Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015 ([email protected]); Brown University, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912 ([email protected]); SGT, Inc., 7701 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20770 ([email protected]).
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