Tag: the moon

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

“This widening gap is the result of gravitational interactions between the two bodies.”

Does that sound like anything you have ever heard about gravity as a force? Not that I believe the original premise that two astronauts landed on the Moon and set the reflector on its surface. But the gravitational pull of the Earth on the Moon is actually pushing the Moon away from us? 

Time to question everything you have ever heard.

Via Business Standard

Is the Moon drifting away from Earth? Laser beams unravel a new mystery

While the Moon has always been a source of mystery for people across the world, a new observation has raised the curiosity in astronomy circles even further: Is the Moon drifting away from Earth?

On several occasions during the last decade, scientists have fired laser beams at reflector panels placed about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth, on the Moon. By measuring how long it takes laser light to return to Earth — about 2.5 seconds on average — researchers calculate the distance between Earth laser stations and Moon reflectors.

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Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

This is what passes for science these days.

And we never went to the Moon.

Via RT

The moon is 85 MILLION years younger than we thought, say German scientists

Planetary geophysicists have used a new numerical model to determine that the moon is in fact 85 million years younger than previously thought, having formed from the extremely violent and unlikely collision of two protoplanets.

The boffins at the German Aerospace Center, led by Maxime Maurice, produced a model to more accurately calculate what exactly happened when the protoplanet Theia smashed into a nascent, and still-forming, Earth about 4.425 billion years ago.

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