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Alan B. Binder
Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Publications - 49
Citations - 4067
Alan B. Binder is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neutron & Impact crater. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 49 publications receiving 3669 citations.
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Fluxes of fast and epithermal neutrons from Lunar Prospector: evidence for water ice at the lunar poles.
W. C. Feldman,Sylvestre Maurice,Alan B. Binder,B. L. Barraclough,R. C. Elphic,David J. Lawrence +5 more
TL;DR: Maps of epithermal- and fast-neutron fluxes measured by Lunar Prospector were used to search for deposits enriched in hydrogen at both lunar poles, and data are consistent with deposits of hydrogen in the form of water ice that are covered by as much as 40 centimeters of desiccated regolith within permanently shaded craters near both poles.
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Global Elemental Maps of the Moon: The Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
David J. Lawrence,W. C. Feldman,B. L. Barraclough,Alan B. Binder,R. C. Elphic,Sylvestre Maurice,D. R. Thomsen +6 more
TL;DR: Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrometer spectra along with counting rate maps of thorium, potassium, and iron delineate large compositional variations over the lunar surface.
Evidence of water ice near the lunar poles
W. C. Feldman,Sylvestre Maurice,David J. Lawrence,R. C. Little,S. L. Lawrence,Olivier Gasnault,R. C. Wiens,B. L. Barraclough,Richard C. Elphic,Thomas H. Prettyman,John Tyree Steinberg,Alan B. Binder +11 more
TL;DR: Improved versions of Lunar Prospector thermal and epithermal neutron data were studied to help discriminate between potential delivery and retention mechanisms for hydrogen on the Moon as discussed by the authors, and they concluded that a significant portion of the enhanced hydrogen near both poles is most likely in the form of water molecules.
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Evidence for water ice near the lunar poles
William C. Feldman,Sylvestre Maurice,David J. Lawrence,R. C. Little,S. L. Lawson,Olivier Gasnault,Roger C. Wiens,B. L. Barraclough,R. C. Elphic,Thomas H. Prettyman,John T. Steinberg,Alan B. Binder +11 more
TL;DR: Improved versions of Lunar Prospector thermal and epithermal neutron data were studied to help discriminate between potential delivery and retention mechanisms for hydrogen on the Moon as mentioned in this paper, and they concluded that a significant portion of the enhanced hydrogen near both poles is most likely in the form of water molecules.
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Iron abundances on the lunar surface as measured by the Lunar Prospector gamma‐ray and neutron spectrometers
David J. Lawrence,W. C. Feldman,R. C. Elphic,R. C. Little,Thomas H. Prettyman,Sylvestre Maurice,Paul G. Lucey,Alan B. Binder +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relative iron abundances from the low-altitude, high spatial resolution (∼(45 km) 2 ) LP data using the 7.6 MeV neutron capture gamma-ray doublet were derived.