Test says the moon is older than the earth but is it hollowed out?
Perhaps. In two test crashes from the Applo missions, the moon rang like a bell for a while, then on a second larger forced crash like a gong according to the astronaut.
For some reason, the craters on the moon whether they are very large or small all seem to have close to the same amount of depth in them. That just does not make sense as the larger the asteroid or comet the deeper the depth should be from impact.
What do you make of this?
To further blow your mind the moon has several rare things about it. It’s in the same rotational orbit as the earth meaning there is a side of the moon we never see ( The dark side of the moon ) and is the perfect distance so it appears to be the exact same size as the sun.
Yes, it rang like a bell, but it rang like a solid bell, not like a hollow bell. That’s why they did those tests, to see what it was like inside, and what they saw was not at all consistent with it being hollow.
Craters aren’t all the same depth, and I don’t know where you got that impression.
The aforementioned seismic experiments suggest the existence of a partially liquid outer core inside the moon. (The space is all filled up, of course, as you would expect under the effect of gravity.)
It’d actually be unusual if the moon were not tidally locked. I recently wondered how long it would take to become tidally locked and found some approximate equations on Wikipedia. Plugging in some numbers and being even more approximate (i.e. I just added and subtracted exponents), I found that if the Moon began at 100,000 Km away (one quarter of its current distance), it would tidally lock in only about 10,000 years. But the function is dependent on the 6th power of the distance, so moving it in or out a bit changes that number rather quickly.
No. The angular sizes of the moon and sun are close, but certainly not exactly the same.
One clue is that some eclipses are annular: the moon’s angular size is insufficient to cover the sun, so at peak eclipse the sun appears as a thin ring surrounding the moon.
