I found this interesting, maybe you lot will do too.
rocks delivered to Earth by Apollo astronauts held a mystery that has plagued scientists since the 1970s: Why were the lunar rocks magnetic?
Earth's rotating, iron core produces the planet's magnetic field. But the moon does not have such a setup.
Now, scientists at MIT think they have a solution. Some 4.2 billion years ago, the moon had a liquid core with a dynamo (like Earth's core today) that produced a strong magnetic field. The moon's magnetic field would have been about 1-50th as strong as Earth's is today, the researchers say.
Interesting stuff.
So thats the moon origin a step closer to confirmed.
So the magnetic field of the moon is by that logic gonna decrease with time...but on what scale..?
And what effect will that have on its positioning relative to earth or any other effects, if at all..?
I think that they are saying that the magnetism is sourced from the impacts of the initial formation of the moon + the long term bombardment of meteor/meteorite strikes on it.
You might be right, nothing will surprise me in this world.
Apparently there are several mirrors on the Moon left by the Apollo astronauts. The basic design is called a "corner reflector " and they are used to measure the moons distance from the earth by beaming lasers at them. If someone could spot these mirrors it could bury the "didnīt go to moon" conspiracy's for good. Unless they were put there by alien friends of course.
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