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Posted on 08/04/2023 9:36:34 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science has questioned the origin of a Moon rock sample collected during a 1971 NASA Moon landing. The startling study published this week has found the Moon rock’s chemical composition is much closer to Earth rock than it is to Moon rock. Researchers have found traces of quartz in the Moon rock – a mineral typically not found on the Moon. The Moon rock sample in question was collected by NASA’s Apollo 14 mission, which saw astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the Moon.
The rock was then loaned by NASA to Curtin University in Western Australia where it was analysed by a team of international researchers.
The researchers have now suggested the rock made its way to the surface of the Moon after an asteroid slammed into our home world billion of years ago.
Research author Professor Alexander Nemchin, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement the tiny 1.8-gram sample of Moon rock is similar in composition to granite.
The expert said: “The sample also contains quartz, which is an even more unusual find on the Moon.
“By determining the age of zircon found in the sample, we were able to pinpoint the age of the host rock at about four billion years old, making it similar to the oldest rocks on Earth.
“In addition, the chemistry of the zircon in this sample is very different from that of every other zircon grain ever analysed in lunar samples and remarkably similar to that of zircons found on Earth.”
Based on the rock’s chemical composition, Professor Nemchin concluded the zircon formed at a low temperature.
The rock most likely also formed in the presence of water and oxygen, further suggesting it came from Earth…
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Researchers have found traces of quartz in the Moon rock – a mineral typically not found on the Moon.
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How many geological (lunalogical?) core samples have they taken of the moon?
How do they know quartz is not “typically” found on the moon?
is anything “typically” found on the moon?
How frequent are all these finds?
wasn’t one of the prevailing theories that the moon was blasted off from the earth by a moderately large strike to the earth?
It’s all over the news, the same places you got it. No need to remind everyone.
It’s all over the news, the same places you got it. No need to remind everyone.
There seems to be a habit nowadays of so-called experts ignoring the most obvious reason for something.
I disagree.
And I'm free to speak and to write.
Plotline from an episode of Monk.
The researchers have now suggested the rock was ... cleverly substituted for the real thing, and the real one was sold on e-Bay for a small fortune for some ‘researcher’ ... Occam’s Razor.
WHY? Why are you pushing this ignorant, loopy bullsh!t about the moon landing?
That’s what I want to know. Why?
But you’re not free to disrupt threads which have zip zero to do with the subject matter.
Btw, you know about all that revelations because everyone else are reading the same exact stuff you are. Don’t pretend the Biden corruption is some hidden secret which is never reported about.
Laxative needed.
“…typically not found…”
So, it’s not found or ‘typically’ not found?
Never been found or not often ( typically) found.
Propaganda is ‘typically’ reduced to one word?
BeGood/StayStrong
See #18.
Or the Apollo 12 guys were playing a trick on the crew of Apollo 14.
Channeling Gary Larson here...
You need to drink a lot more water.
LOL!
You say you can do what you want and inundate and interrupt threads with subjects which have nothing to do with the subject matter of the thread?
You think that’s OK?
If we can’t get a monkey alive through the Van Allen Belts, Aliens cannot invade from Alpha Centuri!
“The researchers have now suggested the rock made its way to the surface of the Moon after an asteroid slammed into our home world billion of years ago.”
“Ralph, have you seen where my quartz rock went?”
“To the moon, Alice. To the moon!”
I have no idea what you’re a talking about.
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