Random processes as a cause of the lunar asymmetry

The offset of the center of mass of the Moon from its center of figure together with moment of inertia differences are explainable by a lunar crust of randomly varying thickness. The necessity of postulating a method of preferential material transport into a particular lunar hemisphere to explain the lunar asymmetry is eliminated.This paper represents the results of one phase of research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under Contract No. NAS 7-100, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.