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Old 20-March-2008, 08:34 PM
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I just glanced into it. Methane was detected - in very minute amounts, like all other components of the lunar "atmosphere" - and in this paper (warning! 8MB PDF) it is speculated that it is formed from surface reactions of carbon and hydrogen from the solar wind.
It's really the fact that you have to put "atmosphere" in quotation marks.
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