Does the moon lack a core similar to that of the planets?
The moon does have a core, but it has completely solidified. The moon’s core is “off-center”. The currently accepted theory for how the moon was created is a celestial body the size of Mars impacted the Earth during the age of bombardment. The materials that now make up the moon went into orbit around the Earth. The materials coalesced to make the moon, including a molten core, which was pulled off center by the gravitational attraction of the Earth. I hope you can find a web page that can confirm this. I’d try Googling and searching NASA web sites. I don’t remember what my sources are because it was 10 or more years ago. It might have been in the proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Conference that I read about the core being off center, or maybe the Journal of Geophysical Research after it split into 3, then 5, publications per month.
