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"Henry Spencer" <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <dvabte$8r6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> al <almond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>The moon, however, is dry, cool and mostly rigid, like a chunk of stone
>>>or iron. So moonquakes set it vibrating like a tuning fork. Even if a
>>>moonquake isn't intense, "it just keeps going and going," Neal says.
>>
>>I thought that the density of the moon was less than the Earth? Like
>>iron?
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> It's a simile, not meant to be taken literally.
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>>How can he tell that the moon is dry subsurface?
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> Because we've got plenty of bits and pieces from the subsurface,
> excavated
> by impacts and mixed in with the rest. And *all* the lunar samples are
> dry as a bone -- drier, in fact.
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More importantly, no hydrated minerals have been found.
George
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