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- From: edm@twisto.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Moon dust
- Message-ID: <EDM.93Jan26112802@gocart.twisto.compaq.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:28:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.140646.1@si151a.llnl.gov>
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- In-Reply-To: brinkman@si151a.llnl.gov's message of 25 Jan 93 22: 06:46 GMT
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- >>>>> On 25 Jan 93 22:06:46 GMT, brinkman@si151a.llnl.gov said:
- b> Nntp-Posting-Host: si151a.llnl.gov
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- >>>>> On 25 Jan 93 22:06:46 GMT, brinkman@si151a.llnl.gov said:
- b> Nntp-Posting-Host: si151a.llnl.gov
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- b> In article <1k1a58INN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org> rlg@omni (Randy garrett)
- b> asks...
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- > 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?
-
- b> The "accepted reconciliation of the discrepency" is that the "measured"
- b> accumulation rate was off by more than a couple orders of magnitude. I don't
- b> have the refences at hand, but I am sure others would be more than happy to
- b> provide both the references and a more complete description of this "accepted
- b> reconciliation".
-
- b> Your comment, "Fortunately for Neil Armstrong, there turned out to be
- b> much less -- of the order [of] a few inches", makes me curious as to a
- b> related point, however. Maybe you can help me out.
-
- b> If scientists REALLY expected there to be a 20-40 foot accumulation of
- b> lunar dust, why do you think they would let the first Apollo launch go off as
- b> scheduled? Doesn't this suggest a rather depraved indifference towards human
- b> life?
-
- ..rest deleted to save bandwidth...
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- NASA knew that the Lunar lander wouldn't sink into the surface. The
- Soviet probe Luna 9 landed (practially crashed) on the moon on
- Jan. 31, 1966. We followed with Surveyor on May 30, 1966. The first
- picture returned from Surveyor 1 was an image of it's footpad, just to
- make sure it didn't sink. Both the US and the Soviets landed several
- more probes on the surface before Armstrong stepped off the LEM.
-
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