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Old November 27th 08, 07:38 PM posted to soc.culture.indian,alt.astronomy,sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,uk.sci.astronomy
BradGuth
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Default Moon dust that you don’t want in your eyes

On Nov 27, 9:49 am, "Hagar" wrote:
"BradGuth" wrote in message

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On Nov 26, 6:19 pm, "Mark Earnest" wrote:



"BradGuth" wrote in message


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On Nov 26, 7:07 am, BradGuth wrote:


Moon dust that you don’t want in your eyes, or for that matter
anywhere else:


If you must believe the moon has always been with Earth and mostly
created from Earth, was never a captured planetoid and having never
been covered by any thick layer of ice, by now there's at least 1e18
kg of dust and/or other accumulations upon its 3.8e13 m2 surface. Do
the math.


No one's ever seen the Moon. It is covered by megatons of astral debris
from outer space.


1e18 kg = 1e15 tonnes = 1000 teratonnes (and that's the minimal
accounting that I'd come up with, as it could be ten fold worse)

That's kind of what may be the case of our not seeing very much of the
actual moon, although vertical terrain has little of that nasty dust
to contend with, say especially if its slope is greater than 45
degrees. Of whatever's steeper than 60 degrees should be mostly of
naked basalt bedrock.

~ BG

Sort of like the same stuff your brain is made of ... basalt rock.
Hagar


You obviously can not explain why those JAXA and ISRO obtained images
are not looking all that NASA/Apollo like. Is it going to be the same
mainstream status quo bullyism at better than one meter/pixel?

~ BG