Posted on 05/13/2019 1:30:22 PM PDT by Candor7
Somebody alert Jeff Bezos: the Moon is shrinking.
According to a new research study, the Moon may be shrinking as it experiences lunar quakes, known as "moonquakes." Researchers analyzed 28 moonquakes from 1969 to 1977 and came up with the startling observation that eight of the quakes came from "true tectonic activity the movement of crustal plates," as opposed to impacts from asteroids or rumblings inside the celestial satellite.
We found that a number of the quakes recorded in the Apollo data happened very close to the faults seen in the [NASAs Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions] LRO imagery, Nicholas Schmerr, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Maryland, said in a statement. Its quite likely that the faults are still active today. You dont often get to see active tectonics anywhere but Earth, so its very exciting to think these faults may still be producing moonquakes.
The moonquakes were recorded by five seismometers that were placed on the Moon's surface during the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 missions. If they had been on Earth, the quakes would have registered between a 2 and a 5 on the Moment Magnitude scale, according to the researchers.
We think its very likely that these eight quakes were produced by faults slipping as stress built up when the lunar crust was compressed by global contraction and tidal forces, indicating that the Apollo seismometers recorded the shrinking moon and the moon is still tectonically active, said Thomas Watters, lead author of the research paper, in the statement...............
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Cheese goes bad...even on the dark side.
Drilling for Gas and oil aren’t mining............
(Or, it's just one of those phases moons go through...)
We’re coming up on swimsuit season.
Of course the moon is losing weight.
Wouldn’t this imply that the moon has a liquid core
of some kind, with the plates able to move on it?
It’s Gru shrinking the moon so that he could steal it.
The truth is out there.
I got this straight from the FBI.
Isn’t it amazing how the two most prominent discs in the sky are exactly the same size (from our POV) when we look up at them. How did that happen?! What are the odds of that?! Not to mention all the other mathematicial calculations that are exactly perfect for creating and sustaining life on earth. A fraction of a degree one direction or the other would throw the entire thing off! There are no coincidences!
The moon better do something soon...we’ll all be dead in 11 1/2 years anyway .
That’s what AOC meant to say....the MOON will end in 12 years.
A very early moon land showed nothing of the sort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNLZntSdyKE
But did show many leggy stewardesses.
And the extensive damage that was quite hurtful to the moon.
12 minutes of fun.
Moonbats always making up crap to tax us.
Err muh gawd! Must be all the alien mining going on onthe dark side.
p.s. Women, minorities and LGBLT's hardest hit.
OK I just learned that gigantic cannon have no recoil, that the moon is a creepy clown face covered with shaving cream, and that Lunatics are weird monkey-men shaking spears.
The moon only has 12 years left.
They need to pass a law to stop the moon shrinking.
A trip to the moon or New York City, the moon looks safer.
The escape from either one looks to be iffy.
The bigger question is how the spear shaking monkey men will vote when they arrive on earth?
Not Lunatics! Future voters. Diversity is our strength!
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