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Lunar Litter Used to Reveal Moon's Love Number

Posted by timothy on from the which-is-not-in-my-local-calling-area dept.

nickynicky9doors writes: "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has an article on the Moon's Love number. A planet's Love Number is a measure of ... 'how much a planet's surface and interior move in response to the gravitational pull of nearby bodies.' To measure the Moon's Love Number Laser pulses are directed off discarded retroreflectors leftover from missions thirty years ago."

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  1. Not Fair! by Jester998 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They even have matchmaking for planets now (one would presume that planets with similar Love Numbers would be "compatible"), but I don't see them doing any research to find ME a girlfriend...*sigh*