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dfez
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Registered: 03-29-07
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You made half those words up didn't you?
Couldn't you have just said that there are bits of the moon with wacky gravity that would screw with the orbit of an object?


Uh,No. I just accidentally learned them when I studied Physics in College and they have specific meaning.
Strike5
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Registered: 11-26-08
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I more or less got the same general point across with my less scientific explanation.

Gotta love all the things one learns on accident while in college.
dfez
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Registered: 03-29-07
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This is a more elaborate explanation of Mascons. They were discovered in 1968 and were big news during the Apollo Era. We talked about them a lot. MASCONs
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