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To: SunkenCiv

Wrong! If you have mini-comets impacting the lunar surface at its terminal velocity, low as that may be, you would still see the H2O (volatiles) in the samples brought back by the apollo astronauts. Reference the Lunar Source Book, a compendium of known lunar facts, published after 1973 when the apollo program was terminated. There is no, repeat NO, evidence for "wet" impacts in lunar surface rocks; as Louis Frank's mini-comet theory predicts. Again, you are faced with a dilemma : 5% of all meteorite mass that comes into the earth-moon system impacts the MOON, that's a known factoid. Over past eons a continual spray of mini-comets would then show up in lunar surface rocks...it doesn't, the moon is as dry as a bone. Ignoring inconvenient facts is not how one does science. Or as Sherlock Holmes would say : the dog that didn't bark in the night(no lunar water traces)is telling us something(besides Frank's theory being wishful thinking)...are you listening?


46 posted on 12/02/2004 5:13:34 AM PST by timer
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To: timer

Thanks for that rambling email with no paragraph breaks you sent on Monday. Is that how *you* do science?


47 posted on 12/02/2004 9:12:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: timer

It looks like there may be a serious amount of water at the lunar polls where the sun does not shine.

Any small amount of water from comet impacts is immediately evaporated by sunlight into the near lunar vacuum.

The existence of polar lunar water tends to support the comet theory.


73 posted on 03/09/2013 6:31:37 AM PST by staytrue
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