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 ...
“...the Moon rock’s chemical composition
is much closer to Earth rock than it is to Moon rock...”
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If you think there are no “real” moon rocks,
then how did they compare one rock to another?
Getting warmer...
I was thinking it became a rock from the moon when it was pulled from a pocket and dropped onto the surface of the moon. I hear astronauts have a sense of humor…maybe this was their form of a joke.
I am kidding, of course. The world is full of mystery.
We DID get monkeys alive through the Van Allen Belts — people, also.
And if there were such a thing as Aliens from Alpha Centauri — I personally disbelieve in aliens traveling to Earth, period — whether or not they could get through the Van Allen Belts is unknowable, and irrelevant to monkeys and people’s success.
Because the moon came from Earth.
I think you may be on to something.
smh
I regret the ammo this gives the deniers, but I’ll just sit back and enjoy the flood of stupid people loudly proclaiming their stupidity.
Though I certainly hope it doesn’t originate here at FR...
Amazing, isn’t it?
Donald Trump is being subjected to a series of Stalinist show-trials.
The Democrats are succeeding in Communizing and Sodomizing society.
And suddenly, a couple of cranks drag out the old, tired, thoroughly refuted anti-American nonsense about the Apollo program.
They’re trolls, trying to hide the Democrats’ criminal conduct.
Probes could have taken samples…but monkeys cannot get through the radiation belts
Some day, some woke wacko astronaut will dig up the golf ball Alan Shepard used on the moon (Titlelist?). The ‘experts’ will pontificate, and probably ask the government to keep funding their ‘expert’ opinions, just like all the Globull Gloaming Climate Crap that is funded.
“but monkeys cannot get through the radiation belts”
That would include Russians too.
Anyone who can view a CRT w/o dying can ‘get thru the radiation belts”.
PAY VERY, VERY CLOSE ATTENTION.
CAUTION: READ VERY SLOWLY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
“A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet’s magnetosphere.”
Keyword: particles.
Now that there is funny. 😄
Not ‘generally’ or ‘frequently’ found. Not saying quartz is ‘never’ found on the moon.
Regards
ARB
This thread is not about any of that. Stop the bull s**t.
I do like him and listen to him once in a while.
His radio show isn’t broadcast in my area, but I catch occasional podcasts. I wouldn’t complain if the local talk radio station put Dan in Hannity’s current mid-afternoon slot.
Michael Berry has become my #1 since Rush went home.
I listen to his podcast maybe 2-3 times most weeks. He often uses the phrase “dipsy-do switcharoo.” We both said “switcharoo” so that’s why I asked.
I thought the conclusion of the Apollo 17 collection was that the material collected on the moon originated from earth because earth was struck by a large chunk of debris the size of Mars which created a belt of material which eventually formed into our moon. So why be surprised if it resembles Earth rock?
Your disruptions pretty much prove you don't like these kinds of subjects. Btw, the moderator sent your #10 disruptive comments to the corn field where they belong. Glad someone is paying attention.
Look, if everyone did what you did in #10, this place would be chaos...This is not complex. People don't need your approval to post different subjects. C'mon.
Raise your hand if you’re shocked that a Budweiser can with a bottle rocket strapped to it couldn’t get to the moon. 🙄
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