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Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Originally posted by McGinty
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
I remember hearing that when the apollo took place having them land and take off was said to have moved the moon. Last couple of years they shot 'missiles' at it for tests.
Could it be that man has pushed the moon?edit on 13-3-2011 by Shadow Herder because: (no reason given)
That's a wacky, but excellent theory.
it would explain why no one's been back there and , as you say, could suggest that the missiles fired at the Moon could've in fact been attempts to correct its orbit. Would appear they failed....
I think this theory is the closet match to reality thus far.
We need a mathematician/astrophysicist to work out if the force of the moon-landers is enough to effect the Moon's orbit.
Originally posted by Jomina
Seems like any kind of change in the nature of the orbit of the moon would be a really good explanation of why people think there is a big increase in natural events happening here on the planet. After all, the moon controls a great amount of the balances that have been maintained on earth, including tidal effects, etc.
3.6. A distant massive object: Planet X/Nemesis/Tyche
A promising candidate for explaining the anomalous increase of the lunar eccentricity
may be, at least in principle, a trans-Plutonian massive body of planetary size located in
the remote peripheries of the solar system: Planet X/Nemesis/Tyche (Lykawka & Mukai
2008; Melott & Bambach 2010; Fern´andez 2011; Matese & Whitmire 2011). Indeed, as we
will see, the perturbation induced by it would actually cause a non-vanishing long-term
variation of e.