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- From: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov
- Subject: Re: Ten embarrassed questions about the moon (very long)
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:11:00 GMT
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- In article <721206789snx@osea.demon.co.uk>, andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson) writes...
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- >In article <BxD5Hz.Ewt.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov writes:
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- >>
- >>-From: snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- >>-Subject: NASA Coverup
- >>-Keywords: Ten Embarrassing Questions about the Moon
- >>-Date: 6 Nov 92 23:37:31 GMT
- >>
- >>- As promised ,here come the ...
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- >>- TEN EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOON
- >>
- >>I expect you'll get a tremendous number of replies - I'll try to answer some
- >>of the easier questions.
- >
- >An excellent article! I have a couple of questions...
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- >What is the ratio of density of the mascons to the "masdeps" (depletions)?
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- >Are the mascons responsible for the locked orbit? If so, then that would
- >explain why the Marias are dense and are only found facing the Earth.
- >
- >References I've seen indicate that Earth's tides are responsible for
- >locking the moon's rotation to the orbit.
- >
- >Andy.
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- >>>>> Those that can, use applications. Those that can't, write them! <<<<
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- Here are a couple of references that may help people on this subject. It isn't
- as cut and dry as my friend John suggests.
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- Mascons: Lunar Mass Concentrations
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- P. M. Muller and W. L. Sjogren
- SCIENCE 16, August 1968, Volume 161. pp 680-684
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- Lunar Gravity Via the Apollo 15 and 16 Subsatellites
- W.L. Sjogren and R. N. Wimberly
- Paper presented at the Lunar Science Institute conference on Geophysical
- and Geochemical Exploration of the Moon and Planets, January 10-12, 1973
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- Reprinted in "The Moon 9 (1974) pp. 155-128
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- This is all for now, good luck on your research, the Moon is a wonderful
- place and we WILL live there one day.
-
- Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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