Moons

ColdSteel · #1 March 2nd, 2001, 01:32 AM

The earth's moon has quite a few unique features that have puzzled our scientists for quite a long time now. As was pointed out below, the ratio of the size of our moon to the earth is abnormally high as moons go. Truely our moon is a giant in our solar system. It rivals the gas giant's moons. There are a lot of other odd things about it like the fact that it always keeps one side facing the earth at all times as it orbits. Also, when one the Apollo missions set up a seismic station on the moon and then dropped part of the LEM back onto the moon after they left, the interior of the moon rang like a bell for hours, puzzling the hell out of the NASA geologists. There are also some other really, really strange things about our moon that cause the curious of mind to wonder..

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raynor · #2 March 2nd, 2001, 01:37 AM

Cool info. If you find a website which talks about this, let me know. Interesting stuff!

ColdSteel · #3 March 2nd, 2001, 02:11 AM

I borrowed Possum's webferret and immediately found this: http://keelynet.com/unclass/luna.htm

There are also some books on the subject. I read Don Wilson's books (referenced on the above site) 20+ years ago and was fascinated by them.

raynor · #4 March 2nd, 2001, 06:15 AM

Thanks, much!

BTW, what did your search on? Lunar Anomaly?

Thanks again.

Spoo · #5 March 2nd, 2001, 06:40 AM

*Cough*... BS...*cough*...

I hate to kill the theorey of a giant alien base inside the moon, but just about everything said in that article is dead wrong.

Of course it does make for a good laugh.

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.

Atrocities · #6 March 2nd, 2001, 09:21 AM

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Does anyone else find it really annoying that the moons in the game are
A) Always small or tiny no matter how big the planet is

B) always have no atmosphere

It seems to me that I should be able to find moons with atmospheres, twin worlds, and so on, interesting places to explore, not just one repeat of earths moon after the next.

Do this, find a system with a few planets that have moons. Preferably more than one. Destroy the system with a star killer. Re-ignite a new star, and create planets out of the ruble. You may be surprised at what the moons are turned into.

henk brouwer · #7 March 2nd, 2001, 12:23 PM

The only moon in the solar system as far as I know that has an atmosphere worth mentioning is Titan (saturn). IIRC its about twice the density of earths, the other moons atmospheres are close to vacuum.

And for pluto and charon: at this moment there's quite a discussion about whether pluto is even worthy of having a planetary status. It's a very small world (2370 KM across), even far smaller then our own moon (3500 KM across) . Charon is half the size of Pluto. They found a lot of space rocks like pluto, even one that could be more than half it's size (800 to 1300 KM) and they keep finding more. Follow this link for information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1054157.stm