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[A] Baylor University study [DOI: 10.1029/2019GL082252] [DX], published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, combined data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions and found the huge blob lurking over a hundred miles beneath the South Pole-Aitken basin.
The mass, which isn't immediately obvious on the surface, appears to be dragging down the lunar landscape above it by around half a mile. In terms of size, lead author of the paper, Peter B. James, compared it to a pile of metal five times the size of Hawaii's big island.
[...] The scientists have a number of theories for where this mass could have come from, including one that involves the solidification of an ocean of lunar magma.
The leading theory posits the mass comes from an asteroid with an iron-nickel core that smacked into the lunar surface four billion years ago. Scientists calculated that a sufficiently dispersed impactor core could remain suspended in the Moon's mantle rather than sink to the core.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @09:32AM (6 children)
According to occam's razor we would skip the asteroid part, it is unnecessary complexity that adds nothing. Metal created in star, then ejected and hits moon, and finally it cools down and solidifies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @09:55AM (3 children)
Oh, I see you missed the actual point, which was that you're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @10:00AM (2 children)
I can tell from your posts that you spend most of your day spewing political drivel. Just the total lack of curiosity and latent negativity makes it obvious.
No one wants to read that shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @10:07AM
No. I just find your ridiculous (and scientifically unsupported) claims laughable. So I mock you. I suspect you get that a lot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @10:09AM
That's essentially my point. Your absurd blather has no basis in a theory or hypothesis that has any evidentiary support.
So yeah. No one wants to read your ridiculous bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @10:39AM (1 child)
Stop shitting all over this discussion. The ridiculous crap you're spewing detracts from worthwhile discussion.
The adults want to have a conversation. Why don't you go to your room and play with yourself?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 12 2019, @05:23PM
Just mod them down, or browse at a higher level. The real strength of our Slashdot inheritance is that they solved that problem a long time ago.
Washington DC delenda est.