Early degassing of lunar urKREEP by crust-breaching impact(s)
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a Planetary & Space Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA, UK b Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, UPMC & IRD, 75005 Paris, France c Earth Sciences department, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK d NASA Johnson Space Center, Mailcode XI2, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, USA e Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Science, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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