Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Just looking at the moon through my telescope - theres one crater in particular that has straight lines running from it almost half way round the moon - im not sure what they are - i asked someone before and they said they were stress lines but i find it hard to believe stress lines would run so straight and so far really....
Ben_
|
Tim
Site Administrator
Registered: 21st Apr 00
User status: Offline
|
I think it's Santa Pod moon style
|
]{arma*]{orsa
Member
Registered: 25th Mar 02
User status: Offline
|
you must be bored to turn to astronomy.
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
You can see them slightly on this photo - the crater that is in the middle 2/3rds up has lines running at about 8 o'clock and then the other crater seems to have activity round it too.
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by ]{arma*]{orsa
you must be bored to turn to astronomy.
Not really - its interesting.
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
Astronomy is the way forward.
Those lines were caused by the battle of the planets millions of years ago. Before dinosaurs there was a civilisation living on this planet much more advanced than our own, they were fighting a intergallactic war with planets millions of light years away.
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Neil Armstrong said, in a interview long after he returned from the moon, that they were being watched from the craters by extraterrestrials
|
Leighton
Member
Registered: 21st Feb 01
Location: Liverpool
User status: Offline
|
might be someone having fun with the moon buggy 
Leighton
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Comets and asteroids strike the Moon at a wide range of impact speeds, with 20 kilometers per second being typical. Such a high-speed impact will produce a crater that is 10 to 20 times larger in diameter than the impacting object. The detailed form of the crater depends on its size. This figure shows idealized cross-sections of the structure of small, simple craters (top) and of larger, more complex craters (bottom). Simple craters have bowl-shaped depressions and are the typical crater form for structures on the Moon with rim diameters (D in the figure) of less than about 15 kilometers. Craters on the Moon with diameters larger than about 15 kilometers have more complex forms, including shallow, relatively flat floors, central uplifts, and slump blocks and terraces on the inner wall of the crater rim. In craters on the Moon with diameters between about 20 and 175 kilometers, the central uplift is typically a single peak or small group of peaks. Craters on the Moon with diameters larger than about 175 kilometers can have complex, ring-shaped uplifts. When impact structures exceed 300 kilometers in diameter, they are termed impact basins rather than craters. More than 40 such basins are known on the Moon, and they have an important control on the regional geology of the Moon.
Much of the material ejected from the crater is deposited in the area surrounding the crater. Close to the crater, the ejecta typically forms a thick, continuous layer. At larger distances, the ejecta may occur as discontinuous clumps of material. Some material that is ejected is large enough to create a new crater when it comes back down. These new craters are termed secondary craters and frequently occur as lines of craters that point back to the original crater.
Material below the surface of the crater is significantly disrupted by the shock of the impact event. Near the surface is a layer of breccia (a type of rock composed of coarse, angular fragments of broken-up, older rocks). Rocks at deeper depths remain in place (and are termed bedrock) but are highly fractured by the impact. The amount of fracturing decreases as the depth below the surface increases. The energy of the impact typically causes some material to melt. In small craters, this impact melt occurs as small blobs of material within the breccia layer. In larger craters, the impact melt may occur as sheets of material.
[Edited on 17-03-2003 by Tiger]
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Theres clearly no mention here of lateral stress fractures so what are the lines on the moon. Is there something someones not telling us?
|
Super_si
Member
Registered: 4th Mar 01
Location: lurkin' somewhere........................
User status: Offline
|
Im more of a space shuttle/manned flight.
Find it more interesting then planets etc
Si
|
Daimo B
Member
Registered: 20th Mar 00
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
quote:
Originally posted by ]{arma*]{orsa
you must be bored to turn to astronomy.
Not really - its interesting.
I agree there. Its is indeed 
I'd love the opportunity to go there. Wicked Big G Force
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
It was just that i found it strange that there isnt really a mention of what they really are - its strange that through the telescope they are obvious yet still no mention.
|
corb
Member
Registered: 24th Apr 02
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
User status: Offline
|
Yeah, it's Blair and Bush getting ready to fcuk off when war kicks off
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
I've been to the moon. If you have been adupted you will know what I mean.
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Its easy to class people as geeks for taking interest in stuff like this but its a bad judgement (99.9% of the time)
|
corb
Member
Registered: 24th Apr 02
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
User status: Offline
|
Ollie, was that in your Mach 5 Punto?
|
Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
|
Wot it is really is defects in the cheese
|
p33dy
Member
Registered: 16th Mar 03
Location: Brighton
User status: Offline
|
thought they mighta just been wrinkles cos its old... the earth has them but there under water, i think they might be mountain ranges.. i'll get my telescope out tonight and have a ganders
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
Mach 5? No Mach 2, you can shave much easier with them.
|
corb
Member
Registered: 24th Apr 02
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
User status: Offline
|
whats that? shave time off you 0-1000?
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by p33dy
thought they mighta just been wrinkles cos its old... the earth has them but there under water, i think they might be mountain ranges.. i'll get my telescope out tonight and have a ganders
There far too straight - they must stretch for 1000's of km's - and they all stem from craters and run directly out.
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
Its a launch pad for the ICBM's.
|
IntaCepta
Member
Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Mill Hill East, Greater London
User status: Offline
|
what telescope u got?
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
Its a jessops one - its not very good but it serves its purpose....
|
