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Earth’s Gravitational Pull Is Creating Bulges on the Moon

Danielle Wiener-Bronner
8 hours ago

Scientists have known for a long time that the gravitational pull between the Earth and the moon have warped both bodies to look slightly egg-like in shape, but new data collected from NASA missions is revealing just how that pull is affecting the moon.

MIT scientist Erwan Mazarico, who works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, explains that “the deformation of the moon due to Earth’s pull is very challenging to measure, but learning more about it gives us clues about the interior of the moon.”


15 posted on 05/31/2014 4:16:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

IPCC...Moon stretching causes
Ocean levels to rise.
Immediate action necessary!!


32 posted on 06/01/2014 3:16:46 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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