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Moon has liquid core just like Earth...reveal sensors left on surface by astronauts 40 YEARS ago
The London Daily Mail ^
| January 7, 2011
| Graham Smith
Posted on 01/09/2011 12:03:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Didn't they think it was solid?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The moon rocks had to come from somewhere.
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posted on
01/09/2011 12:11:36 AM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(I Love Catholic Nerds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
what does this discovery do to the theory that a miniplanet once double-wammied the earth, the debris coagulated into a lump of mixed moon/earth rock, and began orbiting as the Moon? was/is there enough gravity on the Moon to birth a solid core out of collision debris?
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posted on
01/09/2011 12:25:21 AM PST
by
blueplum
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hot cheese for your nachos!
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posted on
01/09/2011 12:28:51 AM PST
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If it is liquid then it should have a magnetosphere, because the moon doesn’t, then this means that our understanding of how our magnetic field is generated is not complete.
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posted on
01/09/2011 1:13:33 AM PST
by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder how the billions of years folks will try to spin this?
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posted on
01/09/2011 1:39:50 AM PST
by
JSDude1
(December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
To: guerito1
NASA
Never A Straight Answer
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posted on
01/09/2011 1:45:56 AM PST
by
Bookie1066
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll bet at some point we find oil and natural gas reserves on the moon.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No...speculation was that the Moon was hollow given that it allegedly ‘rang like a bell’ back in 1969.
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posted on
01/09/2011 2:54:46 AM PST
by
cranked
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The moon appears (from the article) to have a solid iron core, and a liquid layer above that.
Four things could be keeping the centre of the moon hot enough for all this action:
Gravity (Tidal) heating
Magnetic heating
Radioactive heating
Initial frictional heat of formation + retention.
I’d have to guess that radioactive heating and initial frictional heat are the main components, just like in the Earth.
Heavier (radioactive) elements naturally shift in towards the core of planets and planetoids during planetary formation. They produce heat, and that heat has nowhere to go. The ‘hot’ area of the Moon is tiny compared with the Earths, but apparently enough to maintain a ~ 80 mile liquid zone.
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posted on
01/09/2011 2:59:26 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
To: agere_contra
An 80 mile liquid zone is tiny compared to Earth’s. In addition, would a molten metal core need to be rotating in order to generate a magnetic field? Reason I ask is that Venus likely has a sizeable molten core, but no where near a magnetic field, and it’s rotation is much slower than Earth’s. I do however realize that correlation is not causation. The lack of rotation likely due to tidal lock.
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posted on
01/09/2011 3:48:29 AM PST
by
Fred Hayek
(FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes.)
To: rusty millet
Ill bet at some point we find oil and natural gas reserves on the moon.Drilling costs would be pretty high, just starting with the rig move. Everyone charges mileage, don'tcha know...
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posted on
01/09/2011 3:50:33 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: Smokin' Joe
Not only that but BO the almighty probably would hold up the drilling permit.
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posted on
01/09/2011 4:42:47 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: blueplum
Modern scientific thories tend to gravitate toward the largest grants which gore the fewest peers.
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posted on
01/09/2011 5:52:48 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Isn’t the moons core where R.Daneel Olivaw lives?
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posted on
01/09/2011 6:43:12 AM PST
by
Dryman
("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
To: Dryman
Isnt the moon’s core where R.Daneel Olivaw lives?
There. fixed it.
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posted on
01/09/2011 6:47:14 AM PST
by
Dryman
("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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