Multiple Choice
The precise radius of the inner core was not measured until relatively recently. How was this accomplished?
A) by Neil Armstrong conducting hammer seismic experiments during a 1960's Apollo Mission
B) by finding the S- wave shadow zone beyond 105°
C) by measuring the edge of the P- wave shadow zone from the great Chilean earthquake of 1960
D) by using a precisely known, underground nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert in the early 1960s
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