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Post by nyx on Jun 12, 2019 4:00:29 GMT
Baylor University claims that metal equal to 5 Hawaii’s is buried at the moon’s South Pole.
This just makes the moon even more mysterious.
All I got to say is the moon is an artificial satellite home to aliens.
We were warmed to stay away, and that is why Trump changed his mind and decided to go straight to Mars.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 6:57:51 GMT
Thanx Nyx Interesting!..
A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system -- the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin -- and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study.
"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That's roughly how much unexpected mass we detected," said lead author Peter B. James,
Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences. The crater itself is oval-shaped, as wide as 2,000 kilometers -- roughly the distance between Waco, Texas, and Washington, D.C. -- and several miles deep. Despite its size, it cannot be seen from Earth because it is on the far side of the Moon.
The study -- "Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin" -- is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
To measure subtle changes in the strength of gravity around the Moon, researchers analyzed data from spacecrafts used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
"When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin," James said. "One of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the Moon's mantle."
The dense mass -- "whatever it is, wherever it came from" -- is weighing the basin floor downward by more than half a mile, he said. Computer simulations of large asteroid impacts suggest that, under the right conditions, an iron-nickel core of an asteroid may be dispersed into the upper mantle (the layer between the Moon's crust and core) during an impact. "We did the math and showed that a sufficiently dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon's mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the Moon's core," James said. Another possibility is that the large mass might be a concentration of dense oxides associated with the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification. James said that the South Pole-Aitken basin -- thought to have been created about 4 billion years ago -- is the largest preserved crater in the solar system. While larger impacts may have occurred throughout the solar system, including on Earth, most traces of those have been lost. James called the basin "one of the best natural laboratories for studying catastrophic impact events, an ancient process that shaped all of the rocky planets and moons we see today." This research was supported through the NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) science team. |
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Post by HAL on Jun 13, 2019 19:13:57 GMT
So it makes you wonder why this mass isn't on this side of the Moon.
One would think that the heaviest point on a sphere would finish up at the point closest to the source of gravity that effects the sphere most. That would be the Earth.
It would be like a weight preventing the sphere from rotating around it's own polar axis; which the Moon does not do. But it appears to be on the wrong side.
Which would seem to indicate that there is a greater weight on this side.
HAL.
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Post by nyx on Jun 13, 2019 22:05:03 GMT
The moon is a real enigma that rings hollow like a bell.
The moon could be more mysterious compared to what is in going on elsewhere in the universe.
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Post by HAL on Jun 16, 2019 15:54:34 GMT
George H Leonard would agree with you.
HAL
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Post by drwu on Jun 17, 2019 19:01:36 GMT
Just to keep things from falling down the rabbit hole..the scientists said nothing about lunar aliens but that the 'metal' is most likely iron-nickel from asteroids that struck the moon long time ago. And if the aliens don't want us on the moon why would they want us on Mars either..?  |
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Post by HAL on Jun 17, 2019 21:31:50 GMT
Dr wu, So it's 'choose your rabbit hole' time ? HAL  |
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