{"id":3923379,"date":"2025-12-31T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/huge-metallic-mass-under-the-moons-surface-has-scientists-scratching-their-heads\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:06:27","slug":"huge-metallic-mass-under-the-moons-surface-has-scientists-scratching-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/huge-metallic-mass-under-the-moons-surface-has-scientists-scratching-their-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge metallic mass under the Moon\u2019s surface has scientists scratching their heads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Z96z1JdXpA?feature=oembed<\/a><\/p>\n

Astronomers at Baylor University have just found something on the Moon\u2019s largest crater that has left them confused and wondering how exactly it got there in the first place.<\/p>\n

According to Futurism.com<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cA team of astronomers found a \u2018large excess of mass\u2019 under the Moon\u2019s largest crater, the Aitken basin \u2014 likely a relic from an ancient asteroid impact event, but perhaps something much stranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A sub-surface metallic anomaly on the moon? Somebody call dr. Heywood Floyd, STAT!https:\/\/t.co\/DIVmrFKv2i<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bj\u00f8rnar \u2018CMDR inshadowz\u2019 Haveland (@inshadowz) June 13, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lead researcher Peter B. James noted:<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That\u2019s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So where exactly did this enormous mass come from? There are two theories, but no solid answers just yet, Phys.org<\/em><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe dense mass\u2014whatever it is, wherever it came from\u2019\u2014is weighing the basin floor downward by more than half a mile, (James) said. Computer simulations of large asteroid impacts suggest that, under the right conditions, an iron-nickel core of an asteroid may be dispersed into the upper mantle<\/a>\u00a0(the layer between the Moon\u2019s crust and core) during an impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother possibility is that the large mass<\/a> might be a concentration of dense oxides associated with the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Z96z1JdXpA<\/a><\/p>\n

The Moon crater where the anomaly was found is the largest preserved crater<\/a> in the solar system, making it an object of fascination for astronomers. Dr. James called the crater basin \u201cone of the best natural laboratories for studying catastrophic impact events, an ancient process that shaped all of the rocky planets and moons we see today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers found the metallic mass thanks to space probes and other spacecraft that have been taking photographs of the Moon, CNN<\/em> notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe researchers from Baylor used various sets of data collected from space crafts that measure the gravity around the moon, and compared them to maps and imaging of the moon\u2019s surface. As a result, they found a dense metallic mass pulling down on the floor of the basin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This new information could well help explain the formation of various celestial bodies in our solar system, according to National Geographic<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2019It\u2019s just so mysterious\u2019\u201d says Sara Mazrouei<\/a> of Western University\u2019s Center for Planetary Science and Exploration, who was not involved in the work. And by improving our understanding of this structure, scientists hope to better understand the formation of bodies throughout our celestial family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, the casual stargazer cannot see the crater in question from Earth, as it\u2019s literally on the far side of the Moon. So, for now, we\u2019ll just have to content ourselves with the incredible images coming from NASA.<\/p>\n

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YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Z96z1JdXpA?feature=oembed<\/p>\n

Astronomers at Baylor University have just found something on the Moon\u2019s largest crater that has left them confused and wondering how exactly it got there in the first place.<\/p>\n

According to Futurism.com:<\/p>\n

\u201cA team of astronomers found a \u2018large excess of mass\u2019 under the Moon\u2019s largest crater, the Aitken basin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}