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originally posted by: Creep Thumper
To my eyes, that is a fast, controlled landing.
originally posted by: kwakakev
a reply to: Hunkadinka
I wonder what Hubble would have shown
Never A Straight Answer is what I would expect. Hubble is supposedly not allowed to look at the moon. The reflection from the sun is too bright is what we are told. The chances of all the crashed UFOs, and alien foot prints getting out to the public is much from my perception.
Hubble Prospects For Resources on The Moon
...Now, the U.S. is planning another pioneering journey, this time to the moon and beyond. To prepare, NASA scientists are using the Hubble Space Telescope to hunt for resources, such as oxygen, that are essential for people to survive and to sustain their existence on the lunar surface. Hubble's preliminary observations and results are promising.
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These observations weren't easy. The moon is a difficult target for Hubble because it moves across the sky faster than Hubble can track it and is very dim in ultraviolet light. The observations required steady, precise, as well as long exposures to search for the resources. In spite of these challenges, Hubble was able to image all of its targets, and early results show that Hubble can detect ilmenite at the Apollo 17 site from 248,000 miles (400,000 km) away.
originally posted by: Advantage
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: kwakakev
Here’s an article about a meteoroid around 10 inches wide hitting the moon...
www.theatlantic.com...
1 mile wide would be quite significant.
Wouldnt a mile wide object impact spew stuff that would cause some crazy moon ring or a chunk seized by gravity to hit the Earth? Hmm Lack of sleep making me think weird things??
originally posted by: MrRCflying
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: kwakakev
For something apparently so large, shouldn't it have caused more disruption? Ejecta and perhaps an energetic flash?
With the absence of such, the irregularity could have been an insect flying across the aperture of the telescope or a bird, or aircraft, far off in the sky.
There is nothing to identify scale or distance of the object. The assumption that a visual disturbance in a telescope image is at the maximum focii is unfounded. There is a lot of intervening distance which can also have objects that cross the aperture.
Therein lies the problem.
1. At one mile across, you could not have seen it incoming. The moon is about 239,000 miles away. Even with a good telescope you are not going to see craters that are one mile across. Maybe some really big 2 meter plus professional observatories, not sure about that even.
2. A one mile across object would make one heck of a bang. It would make a crater probably more than 10 miles across. It would for sure be seen from earth. The impact would probably be easily seen without a telescope, and debris would be seen though scopes from all over the world for hours after, at the very least.
3. Nearly all Near Earth Asteroids that are 1KM or larger have been found and tracked in the last 20 years. I would have to look it up, but I know it is upwards of 95%. Not a chance something one mile across or larger has not been seen yet.
I call BS on this whole thing. Sounds and looks fake.
originally posted by: Hunkadinka
originally posted by: Advantage
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: kwakakev
Here’s an article about a meteoroid around 10 inches wide hitting the moon...
www.theatlantic.com...
1 mile wide would be quite significant.
Wouldnt a mile wide object impact spew stuff that would cause some crazy moon ring or a chunk seized by gravity to hit the Earth? Hmm Lack of sleep making me think weird things??
You're assuming whatever it is crashed. But it looks to me sort-of a controlled descent. Hence, no spewed out debris.
originally posted by: kwakakev
This image shows some graphs of what is produced by the sun in a Coronal Mass Ejection, CME. What I find interesting about it is how the pattern of the temperature, speed and density kinda match the patterns of the object hitting the moon.
Is it possible that what was captured started as a CME? Did the sun throw something at the moon? Did some of those pesky aliens living on the moon just get a can of woop ass?
originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: kwakakev
I don't think that's an object hitting the Moon, just something closer to the telescope that was passing in front of the Moon.
Such a large object hitting the Moon would create a clearly visible change that would have been seen by all other astronomers looking at the Moon at the time, and the supposed "explosions" would last longer than one second, as the energy involved would throw debris high and, with lower gravity, they would take longer to fall back to the Moon's surface than on Earth, and we don't see that on the video.