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	Our moon, the Marathon?
	Posted By: Some guy	Date: 7/27/02 7:47 p.m.
	Note: Somebody else posted this on a different, though he probably got it from a website somewhere, I'm adding this note so he does'nt kill me if he finds out. The Spaceship Moon Theory In July 1970, two Russian scientists offered a bizarre theory of the origins of the moon. Michael Vasin and Alexander Scherbakov published an article in the Soviet journal Sputnik entitled "Is the moon a creation of alien intelligence?" The Soviet scientists put forward the belief that the moon is not a completely natural world but a planetoid, hollowed out eons ago in the far reaches of space. Huge machines were used to melt rock and form large cavities within the moon, spewing the molten refuse onto the surface. Protected by a hull-like inner shell plus a reconstructed outer shell of metallic rocky junk, this gigantic craft was steered through the cosmos and finally parked in orbit around our earth. The theory was re-vitalized in 1975 with the publication of Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon by Don Wilson. He stated that "Too many pieces of evidence seem to fit to reject the theory without investigation." There is even tantalizing evidence that in the dim recesses of human memory there have been recollections of a time before the arrival of the moon. Aristotle told of a people who lived in Arcadia, a mountainous region in Central Greece, long before the coming of the Greeks. The Greek term Proscelene means before the moon. In Tibetan texts there are stories of a people on a lost continent called Gondwana, said to be civilized before the moon shone in the night sky. Bolivian symbols have been interpreted by Dr. P. Allen as records that a satellite came into orbit around the Earth about 11,500 to 13,000 years ago. Where did the moon come from? As there is very little similarity between the moon and earth, the old theory that the moon broke off our planet and ended up in its orbit can be discounted. It is well accepted that the moon originated in other parts of the universe before moving into the earths orbit. Author and science expert, Isaac Asimov believed that the moon was too large to have been captured by our orbit. The orbit of the moon itself is also enigmatic. It is a perfect circle and stationary, with only one side being exposed to earth. As far as we know, the moon is the only natural satellite with such an orbit. Author and expert on the ancient Sumerian civilization, Zecharia Sitchen also had an interest in the moon. Our mysterious satellite has caused much argument among scientists with respect to its age and origin (Go to our moon mysteries page for more information). Sitchen wrote in his book Genesis Revisited (1990), some answers are provided if we go back to the Sumerian cosmology. The assertion here is that the moon originated not as a satellite of Earth but the much larger planet, Tiamat, which is placed beyond Mars. The Sumerian cosmology describes an unstable solar system caused by emerging gravitational forces disturbing planetary balance and causing moons to grow disproportionately. According to the Sumerians, one of the eleven moons of Tiamat grew to an unusual size. and proved to be increasingly disruptive to the other planets. It was named 'Kingu'. In an ensuing celestial battle, Tiamat was split in two; one half was shattered; the other half, accompanied by Kingu, was thrust into a new orbit to become the Earth and its moon. The mystery of the lunar eclipse? Why is it that the moon is just the right distance from the earth to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? While the diameter of the moon is a mere 2,160 miles against the sun's gigantic 864,000 miles, it is never the less in just the proper position to block out the suns corona when it moves between the sun and earth. Isaac Asimov explains, "there is no reason why the moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth is among all the planets blessed in this fashion. The moon older than the earth and sun? It is believed that the moon could possibly be older than the earth and sun. Scientists have dated some moon rocks as billions of years old. Some have been dated back as far as 4.5 billion years. Scientists nowadays accept the moon to be 4.6 billion years old. Harvard's respected astronomy journal, Sky and Telescope, reported that at a lunar conference in 1973 dated a lunar rock as 5.3 billion years old which would make it almost a billion years older than our planet. Titanium and rust proof rocks! Scientists found that the crushed up rocks on the moon is of another world. Analysis has shown that the moon rocks are of a completely different composition to the soil around them. Some of the rocks gathered by a Soviet mission in 1970 were resistant to rusting. This is not a feature of any metal known to man and years ahead of our technology. The moon has three distinct layers of rocks. Contrary to the idea heavier rocks sink, the heavier rocks are found on the surface. Stated Don Wilson, "The abundance of titanium and other refractory elements in the surface areas is so pronounced that several geo-chemists proposed that refractory compounds were bought to the moon's surface in great quantity in some unknown way. That this was done cannot be questioned. These materials which are usually concentrated towards the interior of a world are now on the outside." Earl Ubel, who was a former science director for CBS Television added to the mystery by stating that, "The first layer (20 miles deep), consists of lava-like material similar to lava flows on Earth. The second, extending down to 50 miles, is made up of somewhat denser rock. The third, continuing to a depth of at least 80 miles and probably below, appears to be of a heavier metal, similar to the Earth's mantle." Many of the rock samples discovered on the moon have also been found to be magnetized. It has been suggested that this is due to their exposure to the magnetism present on earth. Others have rebutted this claim by arguing that if such an influence was placed on the moon, the earths magnetism would have caused the destruction of the moon and its orbit many millions of years ago. Huge disk shaped objects located beneath the moons lava seas! The moon has large seas of smooth molten rock. Known as 'maria', four fifths of these are on the Earth-side hemisphere. In the centre of these maria, huge disk-shaped objects have been detected lying 20 to 40 miles below the surface. The objects are referred to as 'mascons' and they are said to be located like a bulls-eye at the centre of the marias. The mascons were first discovered because their density distorted the orbits of objects flying over or near them. Some scientists have theorised that the mascons are heavy iron ore meteorites that plunged into the moon when it was in a soft and formable state. Volcanic activity on the moon? In 1963 astronomers at the Lowell Observatory saw a reddish glow on the crests of the ridges in the Aristarchus region. This was after a similar glow and gaseous explosions were photographed by Russian astronomer Nikolay A. Kozyrev in 1958. Other observatories also reported red glow. Although the moon is deemed to be volcanically dead it seems that there is certainly something creaking in its interior. Seismographic equipment left at six separate sites on the moon by the Apollo missions picked up a great deal of activity until it ceased operating in 1977. Operation Moonblink In the early nineteenth century, Sir John Herschel in England saw unidentified lights on the moon during an eclipse and noted thar some of the lights appeared to be moving above the moon. Other astronomers of the period also reported seeing a geometrical pattern of lights that resembled city streets. In the mid 1960's NASA established the operation to investigate many strange flashes of light over the moon. The space association had received reports of many extraordinary lunar events. In 1959 a dark object had been observed hovering over the moon for two hours. On July 29, John O'Neill observed a nineteen kilometre long bridge strabbling the crater Mare Crisium. One month later famous British astronomer Dr H Wilkins verified the sighting. In the twelve months to September 1966, Operation Moonblink had detected 28 unusual lunar events. In 1968 an obelisk shaped object was discovered. This became known as the 'Shard'. The object rose nearly two and a half kilometres above the Urkert area of the moon's surface, which rises more than eight kilometres from the Sinus Medii region. No known natural process can explain the structure. Is the moon hollow? There are many indications that the moon is hollow. The moon's mean density- about 3.34 grams per cubic centimetre is significantly less than the 5.5 gram density of the earth's mantle. This density indicates that the moon may not have a core. The most starling evidence came on November 20 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew, after returning to their command ship, sent the lunar module ascent stage crashing down back on to the moon, creating an artificial earthquake. The crash site was 40 miles from where the astronauts had left their seismic devices. The ultra sensitive equipment recorded the moon ringing like a bell for more almost forty minutes. The vibration took almost eight minutes to reach a peak and then diminished in intensity. This ringing was repeated when the Apollo 13's third stage fell to the lunar surface, striking with the equivalent of eleven tons of TNT. According to NASA, this time the moon reacted like a gong. Although seismic equipment was 108 miles from the crash site, recordings showed reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and traveled to a depth of twenty-two to twenty-five miles. Subsequent studies of man-made crashes yielded similar results. After one impact the moon reverberated for four hours. On March 13, 1972, a large meteorite struck the moon with the equivalent off 200 ton of TNT. After sending shockwaves deep into the interior of the moon, scientists were baffled to find that none returned, concerning there is something unusual about the moon's core. It seems the moon has a tough outer shell but a light, or non-existent interior

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	Our moon, the Marathon?	Some guy	7/27/02 7:47 p.m.
	Re: Our moon, the Marathon?	Yossarian	7/28/02 1:26 a.m.
	Re: Our moon, the Marathon?	Steve Levinson	7/28/02 10:19 a.m.
	Re: Our moon, the Marathon?	:: Beer Can ::	7/29/02 12:39 a.m.
	Re: Our moon, the Marathon?	Steve Levinson	7/29/02 1:27 a.m.
	Re: Our moon, the Marathon?	:: Beer Can ::	7/29/02 10:54 a.m.

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