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On Sep 23, 8:12 am, Knecht <rlolders...@amherst.edu> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 8:07 pm, Victor Smootbank <mean_prie...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > C'mon, the moon is an ugly piece of rock and dirt blocking our
> > view into deep space.
>
> > I think we'll need a petition to move the moon from our orbit,
> > because the moon is a giant piece of garbage.
>
> > When the moon is gone, astronomy will be far more fun!!!
>
> > What do you think???
>
> According to a credible physicist with a published book on basic
> physics, the interaction between the Moon and the Earth plays an
> important role in generating the Earth's magnetic field (dynamo
> mechanism).  The Earth's magnetic field is crucial to us because it
> deflects a large portion of dangerous cosmic radiation (high E
> protons, alpha particles and nuclei) from hitting the Earth directly.
> Some radiation is good because it drives evolution, but too much and
> we get trashed.

We are currently losing our once upon a time robust magnetosphere at
roughly -.05%/year, which could have a little something to do with our
moon moving away from us at 38 mm/year.  However, more than likely the
moon has been extracting magnetosphere energy as long as it's having
been parked so nearby, especially since the law of magnetic force
isn't getting this sufficiently attenuated at merely -38 mm/year, and
especially since our physically dark and nasty moon has a somewhat
wussy core of salt like low density that's apparently not magnetic.

However, the moon's somewhat salty surface is loaded down with iron
and other worthy elements that could be sufficiently magnetic.  Too
bad for Earth and moon science that we still do not have any viable
platform of instruments as efficiently being kept within the moon's
L1.  The moon's L1 must be another one of those deep, dark and scary
places for even robotics to be.
- Brad Guth -