An Honest Question About Our Moon (No Bullshit)...

It spins on its axis as it orbits earth so one moon day is 30 earth days long. That's why the same side is always facing us.

The Moon is Kingu, a former Satellite from Tiamat.

So it was formed long ago and captured by our Gravity Net.

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I'm sure super-scientist and all-round unsung genius, IDW, (the Interdimensional Warrior) could give you a definitive answer to your question, if Dr. Astro will allow him to.

OP said no bullshit....

And I'm sure it will have something to do with the evil Joos, who have a vast, worldwide conspiracy designed to oppress his genius.

This. And in the past it spun faster until tidal forces slowed it down and it became tidally locked.

I see what you're saying, however it still seems to leave the same sides subject to the same opposing forces all the time, gravity vs momentum.

Hmmm...

There's obviously a reason I became a Banker and not an Astrophysicist...

Yeah I don't doubt IDW and Dr. Astro could both answer this question, whether that would be the same answer, and whether I would be smart enough about physics to understand it...well that's the other question.

Actually spinning around the vertical axis tends to make moons, stars and planets less spherical. The process that makes a body, like the Moon, spherical is hydrostatic equilibrium. That's a way of saying all the forces on the particles that make up the Moon are in balance, so gravity is resisted by the mechanical strength of the rock. Any object large enough for its own gravity to overcome its rigidity is pulled into a spherical shape, it is the shape that allows the forces on the particles that make up the body to come into balance.

Spinning on a axis, like the Moon does once a month, tends to turn the body into an oblate spheroid. That is a sphere that is flattened at its poles and fatter around its equator.

K

Yeah I knew about the Sumerian observations on that, I don't know that it's accepted science, but there are still a lot of scientists that believe the Asteroid Belt was the remnants of a planet...

But consider this, even if our Moon is the remnants of another planet that was captured in our gravitational field, the question I posed still holds...why did it form itself into a Sphere if it doesn't spin on an axis in a manner that would equalize the forces of Gravity vs Momentum?!?!?

The only explanation that makes sense to me is because it's been manipulated.

Perfect rotation to match its orbit? More than coincidence.

Would be exciting if in our lifetime we get to know the truth about what the moon really is.

Yeah, that's what I said...Oblong. Okay, that answer makes sense, then that leads me to this question, how come in photographic representations, and visual observance we don't notice this Oblong shape?!?!?

Is that just something with our atmosphere? Or is the shape just not pronounced enough to notice without measurement?!?!?

It be artificial??????????????

Psalm: Chapter 72, Verse 5

Modern English:

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and the moon endure throughout all generations.

Original Hebrew:

Thou was feared since the time of the Sun and before the time of the Moon, a generation of generations.

perfect and simple.. The moon orbits the earth and rotates o its axis its just the seed it does its at and how it orbits us we just don't notice as basically the two cancel each other out in our perspective.

Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”



The Sumerian Hammered Bracelet is the Asteroid Belt.

It kept the waters of Tiamat contained so they could consolidate.

The Moon, of course, rotates--at the same speed as it orbits the Earth. So, in the 27.32 days it takes the Moon to go around Earth, the Moon also spins about its axis one full revolution. That's why we always see the same face of the Moon. The moon, 1969, Apollo 12 mission. Photo courtesy of NASA. Now, the interesting part: why does the Moon spin about its axis at the same rate it orbits?

In the distant past, the Earth's tidal pull on the Moon slowed the Moon's rotation to match the time it takes to go around Earth. This is tricky stuff. You know about the tides on Earth. The same forces work on the Moon. It isn't obvious there because the Moon lacks water but it happens.

The Earth's gravitational attraction is stronger on the side of the Moon nearest to Earth and weaker on the opposite side. Since the Moon isn't perfectly rigid, it stretches out, like a ball of taffy, along the line between Earth and Moon. If we were on the Moon, we could, theoretically, see two bulges--one on the side facing Earth and the other directly opposite.

Long ago when the Moon spun much faster, the Moon's tidal bulge preceded the Earth-Moon line because the Moon couldn't "snap back" its bulges quickly enough to keep its bulges in line with Earth, says James Hilton, Astronomer, U.S. Naval Observatory. The rotation swept the bulge beyond the Earth-Moon line. This out-of-line bulge caused a torque, slowing the Moon spin, like a wrench tightening a nut.

When the Moon's spin slowed enough to match its orbital rate, then the bulge always faced Earth, the bulge was in line with Earth, and the torque disappeared. That's why the Moon rotates at the same rate as it orbits and we always see the same side of the Moon.

In our solar system, almost all moons spin at the same rate as they orbit. We think the exceptions are ex-asteroids captured so recently that tidal forces have not yet equalized the orbital and rotational periods. "Not only did the Earth slow down the Moon's rotation," says Hilton, "but the Moon is slowing down the rotation rate of the Earth."

The Moon, being small in relation to Earth, has a long ways to go before it slows Earth's spin rate to the Moon's orbital rate. It will take "twice the age of the solar system", says Hilton. One planet, Pluto, is small enough in relation to its moon that it's already happened. Pluto and its moon both always show the same face to each other.

"No it does not spin on an axis of any kind, first of all. Secondly it is sphere-shaped. However, it is true that only one side faces the Earth, with the dark side being opposite us. Thanks!"

For the Moon, it's just not that noticeable. There is something on the flattening of oblate spheroids here [link to en.wikipedia.org] The Moon is just one part in 900 fatter around the equator than it is at the poles. Edit ) Also here [link to earthsky.org] it describes how there is a little more material on the side that faces Earth, resulting in its tidal locking. So you were right to suggest that the Moon's shape is distorted towards the Earth.

K

Maybe "once, a loooooong Time ago" the Moon was also spinning
but gave up when he realized that it is futile?

Okay, got ya...Thanks K

More than coincidence? it is the same characteristic of most of the other moons in the solar system. it is the natural end state for any orbiting body.

How about linking one other example then.

If by "No conspiracy theories please" you mean, "don't bother telling me the truth, I want something plausible that will fit into my worldview, regardless of accuracy" then I'm sorry, I cannot do that.

To answer your question, think of the Moon as a Titanium hull which is mostly hollow inside. Now imagine how that would ever become oblong as you theorize. There's your answer.

Here are tons of examples:
Phobos
Deimos
Metis
Adrastea
Amalthea
Thebe
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Pan
Atlas
Prometheus
Pandora
Epimetheus
Janus
Mimas
Enceladus
Telesto
Tethys
Calypso
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Iapetus
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
Proteus
Triton
Charon and Pluto are mutually locked to each other
Tidal locking is an inevitable consequence of gravity. It's the rule rather than the exception, our Moon is quite normal in that regard. Here's a link to one example, as requested:

Sidereal Orbit Period (Length of Year)

1.769 Earth days

Sidereal Rotation Period (Length of Day)

1.769 Earth days
[link to solarsystem.nasa.gov (secure)]

Last Edited by Astromut on 06/03/2015 01:57 PM

So it was formed long ago and captured by ET'S to control our Planet .

That's also true. It does rotate, just at the exact rate that allows the precisely same section of the Moon to be Earth-facing at all times. One of the many pieces of evidence as to why it's artificial and was placed there by intelligence.