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Apollo lunar sample #15555

Tuesday June 26, 2012

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Lunar Ice as a Resource

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Who Has Walked on the Moon?

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Microbes from Earth Surviving Space

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Buzz Aldrin’s UFO Sighting

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Identification of Alien Artifacts

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Lunar Mountain Range

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Moon Drifting from the Earth

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Earth After Moon Destruction

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Apollo 11 UFO Sighting

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Determining Planetary Age

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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UFO Sightings

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Going Back to the Moon

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Astonauts and UFO Sightings

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Search For Intelligent Life

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Lunar Atmosphere Formation

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Illnesses In Space

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Ownership of the Moon

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Back Side of the Moon

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Human Development In Extraterrestrial Environments

Tuesday June 12, 2012

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Humans Living on the Other Planets

Monday June 11, 2012

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Astronomical Observation from Moon Surface

Monday June 11, 2012

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Telescopes Capable of Seeing Apollo Mission Evidence

Monday June 11, 2012

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Lunar Real Estate

Monday June 11, 2012

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Buzz Aldrin Discussing Aliens

Monday June 11, 2012

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NASA Exam

Monday June 11, 2012

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Use of Electricity and Rail Systems to Launch Into Space

Monday June 11, 2012

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Sterilization Of Equipment In Places Absent of Life

Monday June 11, 2012

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Who Has Been to the Moon?

Monday June 11, 2012

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Life On Other Planets

Monday June 11, 2012

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Resources for Lunar Base

Monday June 11, 2012

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Why Has NASA Stopped Missions to the Moon?

Monday June 11, 2012

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First Woman on the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Post Apollo Lunar Missions

Monday June 11, 2012

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Armstrong and Aliens on the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Moon Out of Earth’s Orbit

Monday June 11, 2012

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Why Have We Not Gone Back to the Moon?

Monday June 11, 2012

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Sterling Engine On the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Human Evolution After Colonizing the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Streptococcus In Space!!

Monday June 11, 2012

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Space Station and Observitory on the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Interplanetary Exchange of Rocks

Monday June 11, 2012

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Apollo Original Filming

Monday June 11, 2012

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The Giant Impact Hypothesis

Monday June 11, 2012

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Planetary Science Advice for Grads and Undergrads

Monday June 11, 2012

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Do Aliens Exist?

Monday June 11, 2012

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Hollow Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Absorbed Radiation on the Lunar Surface

Monday June 11, 2012

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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.

Monday June 11, 2012

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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.

Monday June 11, 2012

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Rb Percentage In Lunar Rock

Monday June 11, 2012

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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).

Monday June 11, 2012

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Life On the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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Magnetic Field on the Moon

Monday June 11, 2012

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2029 Comet

Friday June 8, 2012

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Was the Moon Split In Two?

Friday June 8, 2012

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No Moon? Oh No!

Wednesday June 6, 2012

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Moon Causing Earthquakes

Wednesday June 6, 2012

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Moon Formation, Mining, and Life Forms

Wednesday June 6, 2012

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LCROSS Mission

Wednesday June 6, 2012

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Regolith Separation

Wednesday June 6, 2012

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Near-side/far-side impact crater counts

Tuesday April 24, 2012

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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

Monday April 9, 2012

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