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Apollo lunar sample #15555

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Lunar Ice as a Resource

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Who Has Walked on the Moon?

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Microbes from Earth Surviving Space

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Buzz Aldrin’s UFO Sighting

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Identification of Alien Artifacts

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Lunar Mountain Range

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Moon Drifting from the Earth

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Earth After Moon Destruction

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Apollo 11 UFO Sighting

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Determining Planetary Age

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UFO Sightings

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Going Back to the Moon

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Astonauts and UFO Sightings

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Search For Intelligent Life

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Lunar Atmosphere Formation

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Illnesses In Space

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Ownership of the Moon

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Back Side of the Moon

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Human Development In Extraterrestrial Environments

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Humans Living on the Other Planets

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Astronomical Observation from Moon Surface

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Telescopes Capable of Seeing Apollo Mission Evidence

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Lunar Real Estate

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Buzz Aldrin Discussing Aliens

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NASA Exam

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Use of Electricity and Rail Systems to Launch Into Space

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Sterilization Of Equipment In Places Absent of Life

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Who Has Been to the Moon?

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Life On Other Planets

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Resources for Lunar Base

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Why Has NASA Stopped Missions to the Moon?

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First Woman on the Moon

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Post Apollo Lunar Missions

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Armstrong and Aliens on the Moon

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Moon Out of Earth’s Orbit

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Why Have We Not Gone Back to the Moon?

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Sterling Engine On the Moon

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Human Evolution After Colonizing the Moon

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Streptococcus In Space!!

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Space Station and Observitory on the Moon

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Interplanetary Exchange of Rocks

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Apollo Original Filming

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The Giant Impact Hypothesis

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Planetary Science Advice for Grads and Undergrads

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Do Aliens Exist?

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Hollow Moon

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Absorbed Radiation on the Lunar Surface

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Earth’s Close Encounter with the DD45 Asteroid

Why didn't astronomers know that asteroid DD45 was about to get so close to the Earth? Some suggest that it would have devastated a forest like the Siberian hit in 1908. I thought it was assumed that the possibility of an asteroid crashing was negligible. So why are some astronomers provoking the alert once again? This asteroid is established to have a diameter of 30-40 meters, slightly smaller than the 1908 Tunguska impactor. We are not sure whether an object this size would make it through the atmosphere to cause massive damage like Tunguska; it might have have exploded too high to cause too much ground damage. However, you are correct that an impact this size might cause substantial damage, and therefore we would very much like to be able to detect such objects before they hit.

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Lunar Orientation from Australia

I live near Melbourne Australia and was wondering about the polar orientation of the Moon. Do we see the south Pole on the top from our location? I get confused as most of the lunar maps show its orientation differently. Some put South up. When I look at the Moon, is North 'up or down'? For anyone living below the Earth's Equator, the lunar north pole will be on the bottom half of the moon as you're looking at it. It won't necessarily be "down" form your perspective as that entirely is dependent upon your observing latitude here on Earth. Perhaps the easiest way to determine the lunar north from the south poles is to locate the Tycho Crater, which is an exceptionally bright (high albedo) crater and ejecta blanket which is located in he lunar southern highlands toward the south pole.

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Rb Percentage In Lunar Rock

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Far Side of the Moon

I have a hard time finding an answer to this question: We have all learned that there is a "far" side of the Moon due to the rotation and orbit being "the same". This is even though parts of the far side can be seen at times. My question has always been, are the orbit and rotation really the "same"? I think of mountains that rise and fall compared to sea level maybe inches in hundreds or thousands of years. If not exact, is the Moon slowly turning compared to the Earth? Could the far side of the Moon become the close side in say 10 million years? Please satisfy my curiosity. While the moon is actually moving always from the Earth and the Earth's tilt coupled to the Moon's eccentricity in it's orbit allows us to see more than just 50% of the Moon's surface, it is indeed locked into it's current configuration forever and ever (barring any major catastrophe, e.g. a major impact).

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Life On the Moon

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Magnetic Field on the Moon

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2029 Comet

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Was the Moon Split In Two?

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No Moon? Oh No!

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Moon Causing Earthquakes

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Moon Formation, Mining, and Life Forms

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LCROSS Mission

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Regolith Separation

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Near-side/far-side impact crater counts

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Lunar Atmosphere and Moonquakes

Recently I watched the presentation that Brian Day did on Exploring the lunar atmosphere. I had some questions. I don't want to sound like a jerk, but Brian Day said that your organization THE LUNAR SCIENCE INSTITTUTE did not know what the lunar atmosphere consisted of, he also said that your organization did not know what causes the 10 minute 5.5 Richter scale shallow moon quakes. I am sure this can't be true is it that this information is not being released to the public yet. my questions are 1. WHAT DOES THE LUNAR ATMOSPHERE CONSIST OF? 2. WHAT CAUSES THESE MOON QUAKES? We have had Spectrographs for a long time, and NASA publishes what other atmospheres consist of that are much farther away and less studied than our moon. P.S. Is there anywhere I could go to have a conversation about the moon I would pay money or travel DAVID

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Crater 211

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bubbles in microgravity

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Which star visible near moon?

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Volcanos on the moon

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Sound on the moon

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Movement of the moon relative to the Earth

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Evidence of the moon having been split in two

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Rocket technology

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LCROSS impact

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Near Earth Objects

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Mars missions

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Lunar gravity

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organizational structure of NASA

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