April 11, 2018 — Lander7
The Moon Is Stranger Than You Know
- There is one dead body on the Moon, Eugene Shoemaker, his ashes were scattered onto the Moons surface.
- The Moon is a planet.
- The Moon doesn’t actually orbit the Earth. The Earth and Moon orbit each other, around a point between them called a barycenter.
- The Moon is older than Earth.
- Moondust smells like gunpowder and can quickly erode materials from Earth.
- Shadows of the Moon are far darker than those on Earth due to the lack of atmosphere.
- The same side is always facing the Earth, we never see the other side directly.
- The Moon is hollow.
- The Moon is egg-shaped, the bulging side faces away from Earth.
- The moon’s crust is composed primarily of illeminite, a mineral containing large amounts of titanium.
- The Moon has large, dense, circular masses lying beneath the surface called mascons.
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The “facts” listed here (about the moon) are such a short list. There is more strangeness than you can imagine going on with the moon.
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Share what you have I would love to see more, the moon is a bit of a mystery that I think we could all use more information on.
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Egg shaped! Blew me away!
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The “egg shape” scrambled my thoughts for a couple of minutes.
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I wonder what’s pulling on it from the other side to cause this effect.
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I’m used to thinking about the moon in a certain way!
Somewhat disturbing to my thoughts. Not unpleasantly though.I can
only take in so much. But then I don’t think I need to know much more about it at this time in my life!
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