Comments on: Uranium found on the Moon

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:43:14 +0000

No surprise; considering John Lear says we and current inhabitants of the moon are currently mining there under the cloaked veil of secrecy.

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The Energy Net » Top 100 Energy Stories (June 29th - July 6th) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:23:29 +0000

[...] Uranium found on the Moon | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Scientists using data from the recently-Moon-smacked Kaguya spacecraft have found evidence of radioactive elements on the lunar surface, including, for the first time, uranium! [...]

By: ZERO

ZERO — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:11:08 +0000

W00T!

China plans to land a man on the Moon by 2017!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:14:08 +0000

For the record, I wrote the death ray poem quoted above by Jim. See:

http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/mad.html

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:24:03 +0000

Uranium is not more abundant than tin.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:59:31 +0000

[...] It’s been a while since we really learned anything cool/crazy about the moon, but now that interest in our only natural satellite has been renewed due to NASA’s plan to put a base there, we’re starting again to uncover interesting things. One such discovery is that there is Uranium there. And it’s even on the surface. Scientists made the discovery after seeing the tell-tale signature of gamma radiation in the data from the recently-crashed Japanese Kaguya Probe. (Via Bad Astronomy) [...]

By: Saider72

Saider72 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:42:57 +0000

Mang,

Since Mars is about twice the diameter of the Moon that leaves about 7/8ths of the volume unaccounted for.

I also have noticed that they always indicate the size of the impactor, but nobody mentions how big the Earth was at that time. You assume that the Earth at that time was the same size as it is presently and that all the mass of the impactor ended up in the moon. My guess is that the models they used had a smaller (relative to the present mass) Earth getting hit by a Mars sized object. 7/8ths of the stuff aggregated back into the present Earth body, and the remainder formed the moon.

Just a thought.