21st Century Astronomy (sixth Edition)
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Author: Laura Kay, Stacy Palen, George Blumenthal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 12, Problem 12QP
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The comets, asteroids and meteorites are responsible for the presence of which component on the Earth.
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That the moon has no magnetic field implies that
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the moon is spinning too slowly to produce a magnetic field.
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21st Century Astronomy (sixth Edition)
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