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- From: skroger@zeus.calpoly.edu (Seth L. Kroger)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184524.155779@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:45:24 GMT
- References: <1k1a58INN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- rlg@omni (Randy garrett) writes:
- >One piece of evidence advanced for a young universe concerns
- >the depth of dust on the moon. In my younger years, I remember
- >quite a bit of concern about the depth likely to be encountered
- >on the moon. Many people expected 20 - 40 feet of the stuff
- >based on calculated accumulations. Fortunately for Neil
- >Armstrong, there turned out to be much less -- of order
- >a few inches. Anyone know what the accepted reconcilation
- >of the discrepancy is?
-
- The large layer of moondust was calculated from a pre-space age guess of how
- much meteoric dust accumutales, and used the very upper end of the scale for
- that calculation. When sattelites were sent up to measure the rate, it was
- found to be much lower.
-
- How creationists missed the more recent and accurate measurement is beyond
- me.
-
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