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Molten Core Inside The Moon?

Posted by timothy on from the love-and-warm-mushy-stuff dept.

beggs writes: "The Times (free reg et al.) is running an article about the possibility of a molten core inside the moon and that this, if confirmed may lend support the the theory that the moon is the child of a violent collision between mother earth and some other heavenly body in the distance past."

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  1. Even if it does have a molten core by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The plate tectonics that would have ensued from having an active core (like Earth's) has ceased, for quite a long time too.

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  2. Re:No way by drudd · · Score: 3, Informative

    What a lot of people are missing is the fact that the moon is in such an orbit that only one side faces us at any given time

    Yes, this is true... it also has nothing to do with how the moon formed. Angular momentum transfer from tidal forces automatically forces an orbiting body into just such a configuration. It's called being tidally locked. This same process has caused the earth's rotation to slow, and to increase the average radius of the moon's orbit.

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