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 [NASA’s Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions] LRO imagery,” Nicholas Schmerr, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Maryland, said in a statement. “It’s quite likely that the faults are still active today. You don’t often get to see active tectonics anywhere but Earth, so it’s 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 it’s 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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Some one toss cold water on the moon?
Maybe the Earth is getting bigger?
They said, “tidal forces”.
Possible. Perhaps its reacting to the earth magnitism and sun cosmic rays.
The Moon is shrinking.
Due to alien astronauts mining the cheese.
Moving away too - I think about a mile every 50K years...maybe it just looks smaller...;-)
Like a frightened turtle
Are we all gonna die again?>>>>>>>
Highly likely, and according to the law of karma, we will be reborn in a new body.
But the moon? Won’t be disappearing anytime soon.
Its just too romantic to be going anywhere except around our planet.
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