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Old December 8th 17, 12:20 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Bast[_2_]
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Default Hagar still willingly bending over to let NASA do it to him



Sarah Ehrett wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 01:03:29 -0500, "Bast"
wrote:

Perhaps he can still learn something, and let his hemorrhoids heal up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUZr0Wr0v-s

If you still miss the point hags,.....NASA faked Apollo


That is a lie. And I'm still waiting for your response to the
nagging radio signals to and from the moon which have become your
personal inconvient truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-laser-funding

The Observer

After 40 years' reflection, laser moon mirror project is axed


Robin McKie, science editor

Saturday 20 June 2009 19.01 EDT First published on Saturday 20 June
2009 19.01 EDT



An experiment, begun when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin left a mirror on the lunar surface 40 years ago to allow
Earth-based astronomers to fire lasers at it, has been ended by
American science chiefs.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week wrote to scientists
working at the McDonald Laser ranging station at Fort Davis in Texas
to tell them the annual $125,000 funding for their research project
was going be terminated following a review of its scientific merits.

The decision means that four decades of continuous lunar laser
research at the McDonald Observatory, run by the University of Texas
at Austin, will be halted by the end of this year. Among the project's
unlikely achievements has been the discovery that the moon is moving
away from Earth at a rate of two-and-a-half inches a year.

The mirror's existence, and the fact that astronomers can bounce
lasers off it and detect the returning beam, has also provided Nasa
and other scientists with compelling evidence to refute the claims of
moon-landing deniers who claim the Apollo lunar mission were hoaxes
filmed in an Earth-based studio.

"It is a bitter-sweet feeling to know this is going to come to end at
McDonald," said Peter Shelus, head of the laser ranging project. "We
have done a great deal of important work using the moon mirrors but it
is clearly time for it to end. However, we are hopeful that this work
will be continued at other astronomy centres."

The mirror left by Aldrin and Armstrong after they landed on the Sea
of Tranquillity on 21 July 1969, was one of five known as "corner
mirrors" or "retro-reflector arrays" that were taken to the moon in
the later Sixties and early Seventies. Two other corner mirrors were
brought to the moon by astronauts on later manned lunar flights, on
the Apollo 14 and the Apollo 15 missions. In addition, a second pair
were built by French scientists and flown to the moon by the Soviet
Union on their robot Luna probes.


Corner mirrors are important scientific instruments because, when
struck precisely by a laser beam, they reflect that beam in a parallel
path straight back to the source of the laser.

"Essentially, we measure when that beam goes out and when it comes
back," said Shelus. "We know the speed of light, of course, so that
timing allows us to calculate the moon's distance with incredible
precision."

After these laser measurements were amassed for years, calculations by
astronomers at the McDonald Observatory showed that as the moon orbits
Earth, it creates a bulge of water that travels round the planet
behind it. This bulge - which we experience as tides - exerts a
gravitational pull on the moon, slowing it down as it circles Earth at
a distance of 240,000 miles.

As a consequence of being held back by this pull, the orbit of the
moon becomes altered and it moves slowly away from Earth - at a rate
of two-and-a-half inches a year. These measurements have, in turn,
allowed scientists to carry out valuable tests of theories about
relativity and gravity, added Shelus.

A spokesman from the NSF told the Observer last week that, after
carrying out two reviews, it had decided there was no longer "a strong
science case" for continuing its 40-year support for the lunar laser
ranging project. The spokesman added that two other astronomy centres
- at Apache Point in Texas and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azure in
France - were expected to carry out lunar-ranging experiments in
future.

"These are very good centres," said Shelus. "However, it does mean
that the continuity of our measurements, which we have established
since the Apollo missions, will now have to stop. It is, rather sadly,
the end of an era."

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