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Earth's two moons? It's not lunacy, but new theory
Associated Press ^
| August 3, 2011
| SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted on 08/03/2011 12:49:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Many theories can be gleaned by taking acid with a word processor handy..
If the third human on earth didn’t come from two other ones then a bodacious Yarn MUST be constructed.. to explain it..
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:55:40 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Free ThinkerNY
James P. Hogan wrote an interesting series of sci-fi books based upon the aggregation on the farside due to the death of the planet Minerva that formed the asteroid belt.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:56:09 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
Another theory and just as valid (my own) is that there were two really big pieces of rye bread and mustard spread with a three or so slices of honey ham on them when those big chunks of cheese (called the moon) collided.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:56:09 PM PDT
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Wrong. The big splat hit D.C. resulting in so many moonbats there.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:56:21 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Free ThinkerNY
Standing, waiting for the first Kim Kardashian pics.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:57:18 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: Free ThinkerNY; KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
interesting theory, let me guess they want a government grant to study it?
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:57:31 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
08/03/2011 1:01:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: freejohn
She really seems to have her hands full. (see what I did there?)
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posted on
08/03/2011 1:10:50 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
08/03/2011 1:18:35 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Deb
8-)
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posted on
08/03/2011 1:20:03 PM PDT
by
freejohn
("Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." --- Mark Twain)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The result: Our planet was left with a single bulked-up and ever-so-slightly lopsided moon. The moon would be (and is) slightly lopsided anyway because of tidal forces due to Earth's gravitational pull. That is why the moon's rotation is locked to its orbit so that the same side always faces the Earth.
To: EGPWS
That pic of Brown calls to mind Bill Fagerbakke in The Stand. M-O-O-N, that spells feeble-minded!
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08/03/2011 1:36:32 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: GeronL; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat."
Thanks GeronL.
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posted on
08/03/2011 3:41:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: wideminded
Indeed. And I’ve always thought the far side of the moon had more craters because that side takes more hits from meteors.
To: Free ThinkerNY
No.
I assure you that Quix’s
nightmares
were NOT the origin of this theory.
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posted on
08/03/2011 6:32:49 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Quix
Awaiting Al Gore to announce that if we do not reduce Global Warming, the Earth will once more give birth to a second moon to remove the ill gained heat from Mother Earth.
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posted on
08/03/2011 8:20:59 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Cvengr
Given the size of Al Gore’s ego/head . . .
he could create another moon all on his own, I suspect.
/sar
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:32:02 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
Early Earth may have had two moons, Richard Lovett · Nature · 3 August 2011 · Both satellites would have formed from debris that was ejected when a Mars-size protoplanet smacked into Earth late in its formation period. Whereas traditional theory states that the infant Moon rapidly swept up any rivals or gravitationally ejected them into interstellar space, the new theory suggests that one body survived, parked in a gravitationally stable point in the Earth-Moon system. Several such 'Lagrangian' points exist, but the two most stable are in the Moon's orbit, 60° in front or 60° behind... The Moon's visible side is dominated by low-lying lava plains, whereas its farside is composed of highlands...The crust on the farside is 50 kilometres thicker... The nearside is also richer in potassium (K), rare-earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)... An impact, he believes, is the most likely explanation.
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08/03/2011 10:13:26 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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