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The Precise Radius of the Inner Core Was Not Measured

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The precise radius of the inner core was not measured until relatively recently.How was this accomplished?


A) by finding the S-wave shadow zone beyond 105°
B) by Neil Armstrong conducting hammer seismic experiments during a 1960's Apollo Mission
C) by using a precisely known, underground nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert in the early 1960s
D) by measuring the edge of the P-wave shadow zone from the great Chilean earthquake of 1960

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