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"They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon," explains Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). "A typical blast is about as powerful as a few hundred pounds of TNT and can be photographed easily using a backyard telescope."

OMG, if one hits the nuke storage site of Moon Base Alpha, it could throw the entire moon out of its orbit!

Did I mention purple hair?

14 posted on 05/21/2008 2:24:03 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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My brother had a plastic toy ( about 18-24 inches long ) just like the one in the picture in the late 70’s


18 posted on 05/21/2008 2:31:23 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Purple Hair?

You mean the series “UFO”? :)


36 posted on 05/21/2008 4:27:07 PM PDT by Levante
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