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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Ben81
I don't think astrologists know much about the physical aspects of the Moon. They know a lot about the zodiac and telling the future though.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
They thought the moons gravity was 1/6 earth when in reality it is approximately 63%(if I remember correctly).
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Wernher von Braun (Time Magazine, July 25, 1969).
Nope. Another lie. Not Von Braun. His name doesn't even appear in the Time magazine article. It's also important to note the full context.
At a point 43,495 miles from the moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the earth, then some 200,000 miles distant. Beyond that crest, lunar gravity predominated, and Apollo was on the "downhill" leg of its journey.
www.time.com...
industrialnews.industrialartifactsreview.com...
As is often the case, a mass consumption news source, in oversimplifying a complex point, got the details half right. Apollo 11 was on the downhill leg but not just because of the moon's gravitational influence. It is not a simple two body calculation and it has virtually nothing to do with the "neutral point". There are actually four bodies involved; Earth, the Moon, the spacecraft, and the Sun. Add to the mix the motion of both the spacecraft and the moon and the calculation for the "top of the hill" becomes a very great deal more complex than a simplistic two (static) body calculation.
The Moon's gravity is 1/6th that of Earth. As has been repeatedly demonstrated by various satellites in orbit around it. As is demonstrated by its orbital period around Earth.edit on 12/18/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Actually they do change distance, by about 26,000 miles each month. But as I said, the "neutral point" has nothing to do with the trajectory of the spacecraft. Using the "neutral point" as a milepost oversimplifies a complex problem.
Also the data about neutral point seems fixed because the moon and earth do not change distance from each other.
Moongate Excerpts on Lunar Gravity
(MGTE)--Page 32
"The point where a spacecraft enters the predominant attractive zone of the Moon's gravity is called the neutral point. It is the region in space where the Earth's force of attraction equals the Moon's force of attraction. Since the Moon is smaller and SUPPOSEDLY has a smaller surface gravity, the neutral point should be quite close to the Moon. In fact, if it is assumed that the Moon has one-sixth of the Earth's surface gravity (which is what we are all taught in school), the neutral point is calculated to be about nine-tenths of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The average distance to the Moon is about 239,000 miles, hence this places the neutral point approximately 23,900 miles from the Moon's center."
(MGTE)--Page 45
"At a point 43,495 miles from the Moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the Earth, then some 200,000 miles distant." ('Time' magazine, July 25, 1969.)
(MGTE)--Page 45-46
"At a distance of 43,495 miles from the Moon, Apollo 11 passed the so-called 'neutral' point, beyond which the lunar gravitational field dominated that of Earth." ('History of Rocketry & Space'--1969.)
(MGTE)--Page 48-49
"...since the Earth's pull equals the Moon's at the neutral point, the inverse-square law enables the pull of gravity at the Moon's surface to be determined...The result is that the Moon's surface gravity is 64% of the
Earth's surface gravity, not the one-sixth (or 16.7%) value predicted by Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation!"
(OMSM) Page 66-67
"The strangest anomaly...concerning the Moons craters, is that despite their fantastic size, even the LARGEST gaping holes are surprisingly shallow. Craters fifty, even one hundred miles in diameter are no more than a mere two to three miles deep."
"It has been calculated that a meteor of one million tons would be equal in explosive force to a one-megaton atomic bomb. We know that meteors weighing one million tons have clobbered the lunar surface. Yet they've left only broad, shallow holes."
"Even CONSERVATIVE estimates by scientists indicate that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter should have penetrated the Moons surface to a depth of 4 or 5 TIMES that diameter; yet the deepest Moon crater we know about (the Gagarin Crater is 186 miles across but less than 4 miles deep."
"The conclusion that some scientists drew is that there is something extremely tough and strong under the shallow lunar surface, beneath the thin layers of rock and dirt covering this mysterious sphere, that prevented deep holes. What could that tough, strong thing be?"
(OMSM) Page 72
"In 1962, Dr. Gordon McDonald, a leading scientist at NASA, published a report in the July issue of Astronautics. In it he stated that, according to an analysis of the Moons motion, it appears that the Moon is hollow: If the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data require that the interior of the Moon be less dense than the outer parts. Indeed, it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogenous sphere. Astronautics magazine July, 1962 issue.)
The Moon has 1/6 the Earth's gravity.
So the moon has 64% earth's gravity and the craters are ridiculously shallow in relation to their diameter.
The depth of a crater is considerably less than the diameter. For example, simple craters on the Moon have a depth/diameter ratio from 0.14 to 0.2, i.e., the diameter is about 5 to 7 times greater than the depth. For complex craters on the Moon (larger than 20 kilometers in diameter), the depth/diameter ratio ranges from 0.1 to 0.05, i.e., the diameter is from 10 to 20 times larger than the depth. This is because slumping of the inner walls and formation of the central peak causes a shallower depth.
www.astronomynotes.com...
The Moon's density is fairly uniform throughout and is only about 3.3 times the density of water. If it has an iron core, it is less than 800 kilometers in diameter. This is a sharp contrast from planets like Mercury and the Earth that have large iron-nickel cores and overall densities more than 5 times the density of water. The Moon's mantle is made of silicate materials, like the Earth's mantle, and makes up about 90% of the Moon's volume.
jersey.uoregon.edu...
Continental Crust: 2.7 to 3.0
Oceanic Crust: 3.0 to 3.3
Mantle (silicates): 3.3 to 5.7 (increasing with depth?)
Outer Core (liquid): 9.9 to 12.2
Inner Core (solid): 12.6 to 13.0
Originally posted by Phage
But of course, rather than understand the situation it's easier to lie and say "Von Braun said so! That proves the Moon has 2/3 the Earth's gravity!"
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by Phage
But of course, rather than understand the situation it's easier to lie and say "Von Braun said so! That proves the Moon has 2/3 the Earth's gravity!"
That's a flashback to my debate with John Lear here on ATS some years ago. I made some calculations but didn't get very far. The best I can now remember is pretty much in the vein you presented here.
Both he and Zorgon quit years ago.
I guess they couldn't take the pseudo-debunking.
Too bad ATS lost top notch conspiracy theorists!