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What's with the crater collection at the pole

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 19:50:01 2020 No.11369721 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 20:21:48 No.11369810 Report

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>>11369721
The areas are full of permanent shadows. The lunar polar axis is tilted only by 3 degrees.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 21:35:58 No.11370050 Report

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>>11369810
not sure how that would explain all the extreme pitting in the soil

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 21:45:57 No.11370086 Report

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>>11369721
Ummmmm....
Wild guess, but:
space-rocks headed for the Moon's equator would be more likely to run into the Earth first, while those on target for the poles aren't gonna be blocked by the Earth?

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 21:49:32 No.11370097 Report

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As the moon spins, the poles stay in place, while the equator is moving the fastest (relatively). It's easier to hit a stationary target than a moving target. /thread

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:07:53 No.11370151 Report

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>>11370097

This.

Imagine spinning a basketball on your finger. Now shoot it with a load of paint balls.

You get clustering at the poles because the surface is moving slower.

>inb4 the basketball would fall off your finger

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:18:16 No.11370182 Report

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>>11370097
this

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2020 02:47:58 No.11370727 Report

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>>11370097
the moon is tidally locked to the earths rotation, only one side faces us at all times, meteors and comets would have to come from the north of the orbital plane of the solar system to impact the poles of any planet except for uranus since it's drunk

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2020 03:21:15 No.11370770 Report

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if that were true we would see both a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse every day

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2020 12:58:23 No.11371603 Report

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See this OP -- answers all your questions regarding so called "craters" found on the moon's surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhtHUiAOjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9WOucaz-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz0GhlVKQuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDIWaZ__o4

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