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Smack! A New Crater Appears on the Moon/ Yutu Rover Update
universetoday.com ^
| December 18, 2013
| Bob King on
Posted on 12/18/2013 7:08:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: ETL
On Earth at least we an atmosphere to help slow these things down. And still they can obviously cause a lot of damage and destruction. Yeah, I thought the amount of energy was a little low for 56,000 mph. But I checked it and it worked; they appear to be using an estimated mass of 90 pounds for the rock.
Then I looked at the scale (lower right of picture). That crater is something like 55 feet in diameter!
Rock 1.5 feet long digs out a crater 50+ feet across. Yeah, that's a lot of energy all right.
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01/28/2014 6:37:56 PM PST
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Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: BenLurkin
spaceX should send a rover there and then a manned mission
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01/29/2014 11:17:49 AM PST
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Mr. K
(If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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