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Moon is shrinking, say astronomers
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 8/19/10 | AFP

Posted on 08/19/2010 3:20:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market.

Astronomers reporting on Thursday in the US journal Science said they had found previous undetected landforms which indicate that Earth's satellite has been shrinking... albeit by only a tiny amount.

The intriguing features, called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle, they said.

Relative to the Moon's age, estimated at around 4.5 billion years, the contraction is recent, occurring less than a billion years ago, and is measured at about 100 metees (325 feet).

Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.

Fourteen new faults have been been spotted in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomers; astronomy; catastrophism; moon; science; shrinking
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1 posted on 08/19/2010 3:20:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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A satellite image shows the moon in 1999. The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market. (AFP/SPACEIMAGING.COM/File/Spaceimaging.Com)


2 posted on 08/19/2010 3:20:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

somebody better ping al gore.


3 posted on 08/19/2010 3:21:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Gawd I love being an American.)
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To: NormsRevenge

It’s not easy bein’ cheesy. it shrinks as it dries out.


4 posted on 08/19/2010 3:23:01 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO


5 posted on 08/19/2010 3:23:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

See ya!

6 posted on 08/19/2010 3:25:37 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Gawd I love being an American.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The moon isn’t shrinking. Our telescopes just got bigger.


7 posted on 08/19/2010 3:29:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bush’s fault.


8 posted on 08/19/2010 3:29:36 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: NormsRevenge

Moon Change is due to human activities and space exploration. Gore should tax satellites.


9 posted on 08/19/2010 3:29:45 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: NormsRevenge
Dang. It's now smaller than Bammy's Ego.

Seriously though, I think Congress should appropriate $1 trillion to re-expand the moon. A smaller moon, you see ... wait for it ...

Offends Muslims!


10 posted on 08/19/2010 3:33:17 PM PDT by kromike
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To: NormsRevenge

It figures such a stupid article would be the work of the idiots at AFP/Yahoo that know absolutely nothing about reality or science. They dumb down everything to the lowest Obama-supporting fool’s denominator.


11 posted on 08/19/2010 3:41:11 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: SmithL

“Bush’s fault.”

My first thought, too.

But this is just SOOOO evil that it has to be a Rove plot.


12 posted on 08/19/2010 3:42:41 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.


13 posted on 08/19/2010 3:51:04 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: NormsRevenge

We must abort export to the Man in the Moon. Bring back


14 posted on 08/19/2010 3:56:07 PM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Moon is also moving two inches further away from the Earth each year.


15 posted on 08/19/2010 4:06:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv

More pics here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/shrinking-moon.html


16 posted on 08/19/2010 4:20:50 PM PDT by decimon
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To: NormsRevenge

I didn’t know Rosie O’Dumbbell was on a diet.


17 posted on 08/19/2010 4:32:43 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve noticed that shrinking of the moon. If this keeps up soon it will disappear altogether.


18 posted on 08/19/2010 4:51:49 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon; Fred Nerks; gleeaikin; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks decimon.
...previous undetected landforms... called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle... the contraction is recent, occurring less than a billion years ago, and is measured at about 100 metees (325 feet). Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. Fourteen new faults have been been spotted in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
"Steep thermal gradient" ping.
 
Catastrophism
 
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19 posted on 08/19/2010 5:37:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: NormsRevenge

global warming to blame


20 posted on 08/20/2010 6:24:34 PM PDT by mathprof
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